How to detect silence using LAME or some other command line tool?

2007-07-18 22:52:15

Hi all,

I need to split a set of very large files into a series of clips (so they're more manageable). They're archival recordings of musical performances of several old musical acts. I'd like to be able to split these large MP3 (320-CBR) files based on silence between the tracks.

What's the easiest way of accomplishing this?

Thanks!

How to detect silence using LAME or some other command line tool?

Reply #1 – 2007-07-18 23:14:07

mp3DirectCut

How to detect silence using LAME or some other command line tool?

Reply #2 – 2007-07-19 00:33:42

Quote from: eevan on 2007-07-18 23:14:07

mp3DirectCut

Thanks for the link.

Is there anything that's open-source, for Linux and most of all, scriptable? I don't want to deal with any windows tools since I have around 600Gb (not a typo!  ) of files to cut & process.

How to detect silence using LAME or some other command line tool?

Reply #3 – 2007-07-19 01:25:28

I can't help you on that. Maybe someone else knows about such tool.

Good luck with your huge work

Edit: I forgot to add that mp3DirectCut has command line options (/pausesplit is the one you are looking for), so it is usable in scripts. But, it's not a Linux program.
So, google got it. Try this one: mp3splt. There is a Linux build of this tool, although I've not tried it.

How to detect silence using LAME or some other command line tool?

Reply #4 – 2007-07-19 02:57:15

Thanks! I'll give it  a try!