file splitter ?

[Unregistered]

I am extraordinarily happy with dbPowerAmp, Converter, Power Pack and Audio Player. Simply, this is the best set of music utilities I have found to date. Thank you to Spoon and whoever else are the developers for creating this package, and for making it available at such a reasonable price :o) Also, thanks to TechTV, had it not been for their plug, I might never have found your exceptional program.

dmc Auxiliary Input has allowed me to do something that I've wanted to do for years: convert my collection of live recordings from audio casettes to digital music files and make them available to the world.

Here is my wish: my casette tapes are typically 45 minutes per side. Rather than sitting at the PC and trying to compute the timing between songs . . . I would like to be able to record each side as one large file, and then split it in the appropriate places to make each song a separate file.

I admit, I'm not a techie. Perhaps, I've missed a simple way to do this that is already available. I am certain I can find other software to do this. . . I may even have something on my PC. . . but I would like to be able to do that from within the db family of programs. . .

Thank you,
Michael S. Schreiber

[Spoon]

Re: file splitter ?

Ideally you would record to Wave then load it into a Sound Editing program (I like SoundEngine, free), and split from there - but (there always is ) 45 minutes of CD Quality recording would be just under 500MB, so you would need a reasonable PC to edit that (ideally with 512MB of memory).

[Unregistered]

Re: file splitter ?

Spoon:

Many thanks for your reply. I will take a look for Sound Engine as you suggested.

Happily, memory is not an issue (PC Games requires monster performance). That much tech I understand

Michael S.

[Spoons]

Re: file splitter ?

Here is my wish: my casette tapes are typically 45 minutes per side. Rather than sitting at the PC and trying to compute the timing between songs . . .

have you tired the start and stop signal sensativity recording in auxiliary options? that way it will auto split all the tracks.

[Unregistered]

Re: file splitter ?

Don't record to WAV, record to MP3. Then use a free MP3 editor called MP3DirectCut (Just Google it). It lets you (among other things) split an MP3 file into multiple parts without having to decode and re-encode it, so there is NO loss of quality, and it is FAST.

I have recorded hundreds of cassette tapes using DMC and Auxiliary Input, and split them using MP3DirectCut. Works like a champ.

Auto track splitting using Auxiliary Input is hard to do with cassette tapes because there usually isn't enough quiet gap between songs to reliably detect it.

[donp]

Re: file splitter ?

The easiest wave file splitter I have found is CDwave (www.cdwave.com). I first used it on a 165 mhz pentium with 80 mb of memory, so it doesn't seem to need the whole file in memory at once.

Mp3directcut has a bit rougher learning curve but is the thing to use if your original file is already mp3.

I haven't had good luck with anyones automatic split by silence detection. Songs that trail off gradually always seem to get the ends cut off.

[Unregistered]

Re: file splitter ?

The easiest wave file splitter I have found is CDwave (www.cdwave.com). I first used it on a 165 mhz pentium with 80 mb of memory, so it doesn't seem to need the whole file in memory at once.

I tested it on a 486-66 machine with 20 MB and it runs just fine on that one too - no problem recording CD quality on an ancient ISA soundcard to a dinosaur disk, not even big enough to hold the whole recording . . .
This machine is incapable of MP3 playback at 128kbit, by the way...