mac software to split mp3 file

speedy2007

Hey

just wondering if anyone knows of any software (free if possible) that i can split a large mp3 file with?

ive googled around, but not familiar with any of the names that are popping up, so thats why im asking for a recommendation.

Cheers:)

J-blk

Audacity is cross-platform and should do what you need just fine:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac

And yep, it's free .

Breezer

Garageband, comes with every Mac.

Gregor Samsa

Mp3 Trimmer: http://deepniner.net/mp3trimmer/

It's shareware, but can be used without registering (there's just a nag screen at launch)

Cool thing about it is that it lets you edit (trim or split) MP3 files without re-encoding, so you don't loose quality through re-compression.

big_moe

+1 for audacity

speedy2007

thanks for all the replies.

i tried audacity and used the silence finder thing under the 'analyze' menu to find the gaps (its an audiobook so i wanted to split by chapter, and i know there is gaps of 2/3 secs between each) but after i run the silence finding option, nothing happens. It runs, says how long it will take...but when its done , i get no message -it just looks the same.

Should it tell you the result or do something...or am i being totally stupid here?:o

oneofakind32

Breezer wrote: »

Garageband, comes with every Mac.

+1 garage band, its there so use it

J-blk

speedy2007 wrote: »

i tried audacity and used the silence finder thing under the 'analyze' menu to find the gaps (its an audiobook so i wanted to split by chapter, and i know there is gaps of 2/3 secs between each) but after i run the silence finding option, nothing happens. It runs, says how long it will take...but when its done , i get no message -it just looks the same.

Is Audacity labeling the various split points correctly? Silence finder only labels the files AFAIK, but you then have to export them to save them as separate files. There is a pretty detailed wiki page here:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks

if you want to give it another go...

Sad Professor

I haven't tried Audacity, but MP3 Trimmer works great for me.