Re: working with mp3 files

2020-11-02 Thread Nicolas George
Andrei POPESCU (12020-11-02): > > > Doing this with a lossy format like MP3 will worsen the quality, it is > > > not a good idea. > Import the mp3 directly in audacity ;) > > Audacity might still be doing some conversion internally on > import/export from/to mp3 It will. >

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-11-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 29 oct 20, 16:11:18, ghe2001 wrote: > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:54 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > > > ghe2001 (12020-10-29): > > > > > I had a very similar problem a few years ago. SoX will convert those > > > mp3s to files you can edit (I conver

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-31 Thread Thomas Amm
On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 11:42 +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I am totally clueless about audio files. > Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen > files. > Would like to combine them together into one file with > ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file > pres

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-31 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 12:32:24AM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-10-29 23:30, Nicolas George wrote: > >mick crane (12020-10-29): > >>Is it correct that the concat works with the file but the demux > >>streams it > >>first through audio device and records? > > > >No, absolutely not. What on Ear

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-30 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-29 23:30, Nicolas George wrote: mick crane (12020-10-29): Is it correct that the concat works with the file but the demux streams it first through audio device and records? No, absolutely not. What on Earth could make you think that?!? The concat demuxer works through each file, o

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-30 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-29 23:30, Nicolas George wrote: mick crane (12020-10-29): Is it correct that the concat works with the file but the demux streams it first through audio device and records? No, absolutely not. What on Earth could make you think that?!? I'd so far only skimmed the documentation. I

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:58:48 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Siard (12020-10-29): > > > ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i <(for f in ./*.mp4; do echo "file '$PWD/$f'"; > > > done) -c copy output.mp4 > > > > The method that I know is slightly different. I once took it from > > https://medium.com/abraia/

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread davidson
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 Nicolas George wrote: Siard (12020-10-29): ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i <(for f in ./*.mp4; do echo "file '$PWD/$f'"; done) -c copy output.mp4 The method that I know is slightly different. I once took it from https://medium.com/abraia/basic-video-editing-for-social-media-wi

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
mick crane (12020-10-29): > Is it correct that the concat works with the file but the demux streams it > first through audio device and records? No, absolutely not. What on Earth could make you think that?!? The concat demuxer works through each file, outputting packets in them in order, while ta

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-29 16:40, Nicolas George wrote: ghe2001 (12020-10-29): Yeah, but he's starting with mp3, so I don't know of a better way to do it. The better way to do it is to avoid decoding then re-encoding. How do you get rid of the metadata noise? I've tried 'cating mp3s, and it didn't work

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
Siard (12020-10-29): > > ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i <(for f in ./*.mp4; do echo "file '$PWD/$f'"; > > done) -c copy output.mp4 > > The method that I know is slightly different. I once took it from > https://medium.com/abraia/basic-video-editing-for-social-media-with-ffmpeg-commands-1e873801659 >

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Siard
Celejar: > mick crane: > > hello, > > I am totally clueless about audio files. > > Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. > > Would like to combine them together into one file with > > ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file > > presumably each file has

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
Thomas Pircher (12020-10-29): > How about mp3cut from the poc-streamer package? I do not know it. I just remembered another possibility: mkvtoolnix can concatenate while remuxing into Matroska. Using a better container than the elementary stream is a good idea, if no compatibility issue is invol

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Thomas Pircher
Nicolas George wrote: > MP3 is an elementary stream, with just a little noise at the beginning > or the end for metadata: concatenation of the streams works. How about mp3cut from the poc-streamer package? | mp3cut can split and concatenate MP3 files according to time slices | given on the comman

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
ghe2001 (12020-10-29): > Yeah, but he's starting with mp3, so I don't know of a better way to do it. The better way to do it is to avoid decoding then re-encoding. > How do you get rid of the metadata noise? I've tried 'cating mp3s, and it > didn't work very well at all. You can just cut the f

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:54 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > ghe2001 (12020-10-29): > > > I had a very similar problem a few years ago. SoX will convert those > > mp3s to files you can edit (I convert to flac an

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
ghe2001 (12020-10-29): > I had a very similar problem a few years ago. SoX will convert those > mp3s to files you can edit (I convert to flac and edit with audacity), > stick the edited files all together, and turn that big file back into > am mp3. Works real good (CLI, not GUI). Doing this with

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:14 AM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-10-29 04:42, mick crane wrote: > > > hello, > > I am totally clueless about audio files. > > Have for example librivox recordings of "1984

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-29 04:42, mick crane wrote: hello, I am totally clueless about audio files. Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. Would like to combine them together into one file with ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file presumably each file has meta

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:42:35 + mick crane wrote: > hello, > I am totally clueless about audio files. > Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. > Would like to combine them together into one file with > ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file > pres

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I recommend the python pydub package for exactly that. Tear them apart and put them back together easily. I wasn't a Eurythmics fan but their 1984 disc was outstanding :-) Sex Crime On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 6:43 AM mick crane wrote: > hello, > I am totally clueless about audio files. > Have for ex

working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread mick crane
hello, I am totally clueless about audio files. Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. Would like to combine them together into one file with ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file presumably each file has meta data that I only need once ? Anybody poi