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Combining .mp3s

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I have tons of .mp3s its of a book, i have about 1600 files (1 for each page) imt rying to combine them by chapter, i wanna know a productive way to do this (aka not recording with a program and opening the files for them to play)

Any programs out there to do that, has anyone tried one and had success, please refer me to a program. Cake walk just came to mind maybe? I've never used it though.
 
I was thinking the same thing (using the copy command to append the files). But that would take days with that many files.
Besides this whole chapater thing doesn't make much sense to me if you are not going to burn them to cds.... in which case Nero has you covered.
 
1,500 Files.. 1500 page book, 36 chapaters, i want 36 files opposed to 1500.. how do i combine with copying?
 
i dont know what (copy /b file1 + file2 + file3 final.file.ext) means :(



command prompt i guess but i don't know the commands
 
What are the file names?

If you can give me those I'll be able to make a batch file for ya that'll get you started :)
 
Alright...here's a thought...if it is only going to be played on a computer (I.E. the files kept as mp3 when combined...why not just create a M3U playlist for each chapter...each chapter is one CD or something like that..that way, you leave the files as is...they all play in order...and you can pick up right where you left off. You can I'm sure even burn the CD in such a way as to auto load the M3U file...so as soon as you drop in each one, its good to go.
 
I'm legally blind, i can't keep my contacts in that long, to answer your question.


Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.01).mp3
Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.02).mp3
Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.03).mp3
Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.04).mp3
Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.05).mp3

if someone can just tell me the command for cmd prompt that'd be great
 
if someone can just tell me the command for cmd prompt that'd be great
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CMD....


copy /b Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.01).mp3 + Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.02).mp3 + Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.03).mp3 +Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.04).mp3 + Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.05).mp3 Harrry Potter (o5) and the order of the Phoenix chapter one.mp3

Edit: because these are spoken word files.... quality loss due to transcoding is not an issue.
Use whatever you have on hand. Nero's wave editor, Cakewalk, Sound Forge, whatever. :)
 
erm rofl i forgot with cmd prompt, you have to type it all in.. 1500 files would take quite some time ... thanks everyone~
 
If you're going to join audio files I suggest you use an actual audio program instead of just using the command line to join them.

Download BeSplit Here

This is still just a command line program (has GUI's, but not for joining) but it works wonderfully.

First make a notepad file with all the files you want joined eg.

C:\Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.01).mp3
C:\Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.02).mp3
C:\Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.03).mp3
C:\Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.04).mp3
C:\Harry Potter (05) and the Order of the Phoenix (01.05).mp3

and name it join.lst.

Then use BeSplit and put this command in:

BeSplit -core( -input C:\join.lst -output joined.mp3 -type mp3 -join )
 
btw, "dir /b" will generate a nice list of files in a directory. so you could make n directories, one per chapter, and move the appropriate files into each. then run besplit as above n times and get n files.

besplit will definitely work better than the copy method. mp3s have headers which copy would just join into the middle of the file, and besplit throws away the headers and makes one new one at the beginning of the file.

how do you deal with bad eyesight? i'm not legally blind, but without my glasses I can only see about 8 inches. do you have an extra big monitor? reader software? I don't mean to mock you or anything, but how does it work? just curious.
 
Well, there is a simple way to combine mp3s.

Say if you have WinRAR installed, select the files you want to put together, right click -> WinRAR -> add to archive, choose whatever filenames you want and make sure in Compression Method you have "Store" selected. Hit ok and there you have it, all files being combined into one big file.

I'm sure you can use other archive software to do this. Just make sure you don't apply any compression to it.
 
ChiMan said:
Well, there is a simple way to combine mp3s.

Say if you have WinRAR installed, select the files you want to put together, right click -> WinRAR -> add to archive, choose whatever filenames you want and make sure in Compression Method you have "Store" selected. Hit ok and there you have it, all files being combined into one big file.

I'm sure you can use other archive software to do this. Just make sure you don't apply any compression to it.
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Don't think that's what he was asking. He wants to know how to make them into a single big mp3, not a single big archive file.
 
ehZn said:
Don't think that's what he was asking. He wants to know how to make them into a single big mp3, not a single big archive file.
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Well, I guess I didn't make myself clear. Without compression, the output file is actually a mp3 file. This method simply concatnate all the mp3s into a single big one.
 
Interesting. I would never have pegged an archive program to be a file joiner. Assuming that works, it should work on any two files of the same type. Can anyone verify this?

I don't feel like going home and trying it.
 
Interesting. I would never have pegged an archive program to be a file joiner. Assuming that works, it should work on any two files of the same type. Can anyone verify this?

I don't feel like going home and trying it.
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It works, I too was unaware WinRAR could this this, very handy :)
 
isn't there a header attached to this file though? do an fc on a file joined with copy and a file joined with winrar and there are probably differences.
 
unhappy_mage said:
isn't there a header attached to this file though? do an fc on a file joined with copy and a file joined with winrar and there are probably differences.
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You're right! I just used UltraEdit to view the file content and there are some bits been attached at the begining of the joint file. Sorry I didn't even think about this.
 
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