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Old 08-09-2001, 18:52
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I seem to have a few MP3s of songs from live concerts and DJ mixes, and have spent hours sussing out which order they're supposed to play in, by matching the beginnings and endings of each song, like a jigsaw puzzle, and have then made playlists to play them in the right order.

Snag is, most MP3 player software leaves a short gap of about half a second between the end of one MP3 file and the start of the next, when you play the list back. I want to know if there are any MP3 players which will play through the list without gaps. Anyone know of any? Alternatively, is there a loss-less way of merging all the separate small MP3 files into one big MP3 file, without gaps? Thanks.
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Old 08-09-2001, 21:13
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Take a lookie here for a file merger, i havnt tried it, but... im sure it works.

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0...st-7-2.6258976
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Old 10-09-2001, 21:56
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I was gonna get an MP3, It sounds Complicated. Maybe not!
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Old 10-09-2001, 22:14
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Its not, just download MP3s (from a cd.. ahem) and copy them accross... easy as pi
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Old 10-09-2001, 22:24
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That Trackmaker software mentioned above definitely works, and is useful in eliminating gaps. Also, doesn't seem to expire after 3 merges or splits like it says
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Old 11-09-2001, 18:55
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Personally I would use Sound Forge to read the MP3, one after another, and paste them together, you can then save them as onle large wave file or as one MP3. Version 4..5 upwards will load MP3 files.

You could also try using DOS and do a binary concatenation by COPY file1.mp3 /b + file2.mp3 /b +file3.mp3 /b allfiles.mp3 /b

I don't know how the MP3 headers would affect this but at least you could load the whole into Sound Forge and edit out the gaps.?

Mike.
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Old 24-09-2001, 16:51
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If u use Winamp then there is a plugin called Dudsoft Gapless Output which seem to work pretty well.

www.winamp.com
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Old 04-10-2001, 23:02
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Winamp 3 beta has cross fading output builtin

Its very nice, I recommend it
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Old 06-10-2001, 01:09
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apologies for lack of acknowledgement of your replies! I posted pretty much the same question at another forum and got an answer quicker. Since then, I've discovered that a quirk of the MP3 format is that you can't specify how long the file should be to the individual sample, unlike WAV format. This means that merging MP3's using an ordinary merger is a bit messy. Still, I guess it'll do. Thanks.

I might try that trackmaster as well ... I haven't deleted the originals yet. But does it do any resampling? I wouldn't want to lose sound quality in the process.
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