On Sunday 08 June 2003 09:20 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in > Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 > plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it > to a wav file somehow. > > I have tried lame, bladeenc, and mpg123 to try to either output it as a > wav, raw, or standard output (so I could pipe it back to an encoder to > rebuild the mp3 into something converable). > > Here is the output from lame showing the problem it is having with the > bitstream, variable frequency, and the number of channels.
Once again, I find my own answers, after asking. I guess I just have to look for the answers harder before asking. I upgraded to Audacity 1.1.3 to find the crashing problem gone away, now was the new one. My mp3 was 128Mb, and Audacity filled my /tmp with 3Gb of au files! I found mp3splt, and using XMMS to get times, I am able to chop the files into managable chunks, and it can handle the variable bit rate sampling in the file, creating nice new ones that are much smaller, while preserving the source file. Now, only if I can keep Audacity from crashing. I guess its time to chop some more. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people.
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