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Jonathan[_5_]
February 10th 11, 02:27 PM
Does anyone know of a freeware utility that will eliminate a specified
amount of time from the beginning of a WAV or MP3 file?

Thanks,
Jonathan
Scott Dorsey
February 10th 11, 03:11 PM
In article >,
Jonathan > wrote:
>Does anyone know of a freeware utility that will eliminate a specified
>amount of time from the beginning of a WAV or MP3 file?

SoX will do that. So will the cuetools kit.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Jonathan[_5_]
February 11th 11, 01:31 AM
On Feb 10, 10:11*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> In article >,
>
> Jonathan > wrote:
> >Does anyone know of a freeware utility that will eliminate a specified
> >amount of time from the beginning of a WAV or MP3 file?
>
> SoX will do that. *So will the cuetools kit.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

thanks
Jonathan[_5_]
February 11th 11, 03:15 PM
On Feb 10, 10:11*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> In article >,
>
> Jonathan > wrote:
> >Does anyone know of a freeware utility that will eliminate a specified
> >amount of time from the beginning of a WAV or MP3 file?
>
> SoX will do that. *So will the cuetools kit.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Scott,

I just downloaded SoX and it looks pretty cool!
I assume that WAV audio recorded in Sonar 8.5 is uncompressed and
lossless, so I should able to do a trim operation in SoX without
losing any resolution.
Is this correct?

Thanks,
Jonathan
Scott Dorsey
February 11th 11, 03:20 PM
Jonathan > wrote:
>
>I just downloaded SoX and it looks pretty cool!
>I assume that WAV audio recorded in Sonar 8.5 is uncompressed and
>lossless, so I should able to do a trim operation in SoX without
>losing any resolution.
>Is this correct?

Right.

There are some tools you can use to manipulate mp3 files directly also
without losing resolution by decoding and re-encoding. However, if you
trim mp3 files that way, it has to be done on particular block boundaries
so your edits may not be exact. Those tools are very popular with the radio
guys who often use compressed files on a big media server.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."