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Title: Merge two songs into one?
Post by: Mithrandir on July 26, 2006, 04:49:21 pm

Hi,

I listen mostly to smartlists.  I have quite a few tracks that are really just an intro for the next track on a particular album (EG: From Van Halen's "Van Halen,"  "Eruption" and "You Really Got Me" are really just one song in my mind).  I am wondering if there is an easy way to merge these tracks so that an intro like "Eruption" will always be followed by the next track on its album?

Its always a drag when "Eruption" is followed up by anything other the "You Really Got Me".....

Thanks in advance.

M

Title: Re: Merge two songs into one?
Post by: Matt on July 26, 2006, 04:59:23 pm

You can use Media Editor (included with MC) to cut and splice.

If you use lossless encoding, there's no quality loss for doing this. 

If you use MP3, it probably not worth the quality hit to reencode.

Title: Re: Merge two songs into one?
Post by: Mithrandir on July 26, 2006, 05:13:16 pm

Thanks Matt.

I will check it out tonight.

M.

Title: Re: Merge two songs into one?
Post by: modelmaker on July 28, 2006, 02:28:08 am

You could try mp3directcut http://www.mpesch3.de

You can cut and join mp3s with very little if any noticable loss.

Title: Re: Merge two songs into one?
Post by: Alex B on July 28, 2006, 05:35:37 am

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If you use MP3, it probably not worth the quality hit to reencode.

After merging two lossy files (mp3, ogg etc) with Media Editor you may want to save the merged file in a lossless format like ape. That would prevent from further audio quality loss.

One possibility is to use MC's Disk Writer output mode. Set the output mode to Disk Writer and play the files once. MC will save a combined output file in wave format (Disk Writer has an option for making combined or individual disk files). This would allow saving also DSP effects like Cross-fade and Replay Gain to the output file. Later on you can compress (in a lossless or lossy format) and tag the output file normally.

Quote from: modelmaker on July 28, 2006, 02:28:08 am

You could try mp3directcut http://www.mpesch3.de

You can cut and join mp3s with very little if any noticable loss.

Mp3DirectCut does not decode files so the sound quality does not degrade. If the source mp3 files contained gapless LAME header info this would not be preserved and an audible click or gap is possible on a seamless track change.

Title: Re: Merge two songs into one?
Post by: modelmaker on July 28, 2006, 02:37:13 pm

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Mp3DirectCut does not decode files so the sound quality does not degrade. If the source mp3 files contained gapless LAME header info this would not be preserved and an audible click or gap is possible on a seamless track change.

The files I have done were pre-gapless Lame.