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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:56:46 +1100 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        John Wilson <BSD-Mail@nyc.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MP3 editing tools
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1050103085150.21514A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050102161639.7dad47bf.BSD-Mail@nyc.rr.com>

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, John Wilson wrote:

 > I was wondering if anyone knew of any ports in the ports tree, or otherwise
 > for that matter, that would allow one to lop off the first few seconds
 > of an MP3 file...  but not touching the file in any other way, as in being
 > able to do this without having to convert the file to any other format and
 > then being required to reconvert it back to an MP3.

MP3s are self-synching .. modulo losing any tag header info, we've had
good results just seeking anywhere into hour-long MP3 recordings of an
FM station's logging files, and just cutting out sections using dd ..

Cheers, Ian



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