Although I know it's not ideal from a technology point of view, I
tentatively plan to use my flash memory-based MP3 player to record one
of my band's live performances. My reasoning is that it's still a better
option than, say, a portable casette deck, not least because I don't
have to worry about switching tapes in the middle of a 4-hour set.

Here's the basic set-up: two $30 electret omnis from Radio Shack - a
Midiman "Audio Buddy" stereo preamp - line-in on my MP3 player, which
has 1GB of memory and can record stereo line-in as a fairly high-quality
MP3 file.

My biggest concern (and the reason I'm writing) is that, once I have a a
single 3- to 4-hour long stereo MP3 file (equals about 400 MB?), it's
not clear to me how to conveniently chop it up into tracks that I can
selectively write out to an audio CD. Will I need to render the entire
MP3 file to WAV format and then find a program (and computer) that can
load and edit a 2.4 GB WAV file? Or is there a simple way to split up
the MP3 file into manageable pieces without converting to WAV first?

Thanks for any suggestions.

- Grant