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[AustinBike]

I have a few 12-hour flights in the next 2 weeks and it might be the perfect time to tackle a task I have been putting off.

I have some DJ mix CD sets where they were originally encoded as one long song (one for disc 1 and 1 for disc 2) and I would like to break them apart into the individual songs and tag them.

Does anyone know of a good freeware program for this?  I have used one for WAVs in the past but these are MP3's (and I don't want to encode/decode the files).

Nothing fancy, just let me put in the breaks and then kick out 10-12 individual MP3 files.  Not interested in paying for the program, it is a 1-time usage for a few hours, so it needs to be freeware (nothing cracked or illegal.)

[Alex B]

mp3DirectCut

[John Gateley]

http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/How_do_I_split_a_large_file_into_separate_tracks%3F

Thanks Alex...

j

[marko]

I currently use Cue Splitter for that task...

Main CUE Splitter features:

    * Supported audio file: uncompressed pcm WAVE, MP3, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA, MPC, WV and TTA.
    * Accurate VBR MP3 processing.
    * Full support of DTS-WAV of DTS-Audio CD.
    * Supported audio tags: ID3v1, ID3v2, Lyrics, Vorbis comment e APE.
    * Complete support for Unicode, UTF8 and ANSI in every part of the program.
    * Can load .CUE files written in Unicode, UTF8 and ANSI (any codepage).
    * You can batch process a series of CUE sheet files at once
    * Hidden tracks and sub-indexes are automatically detected.
    * You can include the gap sound chunk (mostly silence) in splitted file.
    * Various file access method to improve performance across different systems.
    * Generated file names are automatically constructed using a user-defined "file mask" string (Press F1 or F6 for a "file mask" tutorial).
    * Generated file tags are automatically filled with informations extracted from "CUE" files (informations can be modified on-the-fly).
    * Automatically generates an M3U and M3U8 playlist file ready for Winamp (and others).
    * You can automatically generate a new CUE sheet file at the end of split process!
    * You can send all splitted fiiles into a common directory (press F6 to configure this feature).
    * CUE sheet and M3U generated files can use a file mask!
    * You can select only desired tracks for extraction.
    * You can associate .CUE extension with CUE Splitter (menu File->Configuration or press F6) and double-click on .CUE files from Windows explorer.
    * You can handle any number of custom "file mask" strings, as needed, directly from the user-interface (Press F1 or F6 for a "file mask" tutorial).
    * You can choose a character case changer, used in file names and tags, between: "title case", "upper case", "lower case" and "sentence case".
    * You can scan a single audio file or an entire directory recursively, to obtain file informations and detect audio errors (menu Tool->Audio file information).
    * You can edit artist and title values from the user-interface using pop-up menu or double-clicking above a track (changes will not saved back to CUE file).
    * You can create and handle your custom list of musical genres (used for tags).
    * You can choose your preferred font face to use in the user-interface form.
    * Multi-language interface: you can translate the software to your language using the buil-in translating tool (menu Language -> Translate...).
    * Simple, light and straightforward user-interface.
    * Tray icon enabled.
    * Free :o)

Limitations:

    * MD5 checksum is not calculated for generated FLAC files.

Known bugs:

    * Preview window in a OpenTextFile dialog won't follow its parent when it move.
    * Selected language on main menu won't show its checked status.
    * MusePack split engine is a little buggy, at the beginning and/or at the end of the song, you can hear some distorsion.

Does mp3DirectCut do a better job than cue splitter in any way?

-marko.

[modelmaker]

Directcut is a bit easy for us computer idiots to use.

[marko]

I honestly don't know one way or the other...

I needed the job done on a single flac file + cue sheet one day, so searched. Cue Splitter was the first thing I landed on, I d'loaded it, tried it, it worked, I stopped looking.

[Alex B]

mp3DirectCut is exclusively for MP3 files. Besides the cut capability it can edit mp3 files in several ways and it has a graphical display that represents the decoded wave format.

Cue Splitter can split many formats. It uses several ways for splitting the files depending on the file format. Some file formats can be split at the frame boundaries without re-encoding the files. I guess (hope) that cue splitter uses this method when available. I have recently found that it cannot split WMA Lossless files accurately because it most likely uses an inaccurate MS tool for this.

Usually the compressed lossless formats must be decoded and re-encoded when files are split so MC's standard converter could be used as well.

Unfortunately MC cannot add tags to the resulting files. (JRiver, please fix this in MC12! MC can tag the resulting files from the database info when tagless wave files are converted. You could use the same mechanism with cue tracks).

[hit_ny]

I used musicutter in the past for this. But like cue splitter it requires that you provide a cue file, if you don't have one then mp3direct cut is your only choice.

I've played with mp3direct, its interface is a bit quirky to get used to.

Since these are dj mixes i question the wisdom of splitting them in the first place. They were ripped as one so they play gapless, when split, you will get annoying transitions at track changes.

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