Splitting A Long Track

[waxcylinder]

There is a setting somewhere in preferences that eables you to suppress the metadata editor. I'm not at my normal workbench at the momnent so I can't fire up Audacity to tell you in more detail.

WC

[BF1]

Thanks Waxcylinder for your reply. If you get a moment and can add more detail would much appreciate.

[BF1]

Hi,

I found the option to suppress the Metadata and this worked. However, I selected to export multiple and again only the first labeled track was exported and upon doing so the program crashed.

I don`t understand why all of the labeled tracks are not exporting and there appears to be a bug which is causing the program to crash. I have allowed the program to send an error report and hopefully this may held the programmers.

[steve]

I have allowed the program to send an error report and hopefully this may held the programmers.

Unfortunately not. That report is sent to Microsoft. No-one knows what they do with the information.

Make sure that you are not using any "special characters" in the labels. Stick to "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9", " ", "_" and "-" (alphanumeric, space, underscore and hyphen)

[johnh]

Ive transferred a cassette audio book into Audacity and have one 48min track. I want to break this down into 3 minute segments so that I can easily skip back or forward once I have converted to MP3 and listening via my MP3 player.

Hi BF1

I suggest you not use Audacity for this function. There is a very simple commandline utility which will achieve your goal.

It is called MP3SPLT by Matteo Trotta. The version I have been using for years is v2.0e (I haven't investigated later ones). You can find v2.0e for Windows at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3spl ... p/download

How to use it:
1. Unzip the above file.

2. Create an empty directory folder and copy the file MP3SPLT.EXE into it.

3. Move your 48-minute MP3 file (let's call it infile.mp3) into this same directory.

4. Run the command to split a file into 3 minute chunks (for v2.0e), namely:
mp3splt -f -n -t 3.00 infile.mp3

5. This will create a bunch 3-minute files named:
infile_000.00_003.00.mp3
infile_003.00_006.00.mp3
infile_006.00_009.00.mp3
etc

6. The files in 5. above would be suitable to copy to your MP3 player.

[steve]

It is called MP3SPLT by Matteo Trotta.

There is also a version with a graphical interface: http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_ ... nloads.php