Hi Michael, If this is an Audible audiobook file with DRM purchased either from Audible or from the iTunes Store that you want to write out to audio CD, then you won't be able to use third party programs to split the file. Otherwise, I would recommend using Amadeus Pro, if you have it, since there's a nice feature for marking silence points and splitting tracks, or else you could use Fission from Rogue Amoeba (the makers of Audio Hijack Pro), which will handle editing without re-encoding. I've used Amadeus Pro before to automatically split tracks from cassette tape recordings that I've digitized to audio format on my Mac. By playing around with the time length of the silence for placing markers, I can do a nice auto-split. I usually clean the tracks of noise between I try this by using the Amadeus Pro feature of selecting a section of track without sound (but which might include tape hiss, etc.) and using that to denoise my file. (I haven't done this in some time, since I converted most of these tracks a while ago.) In practice, if you don't use automatic settings, you could set markers at the intervals you want (about 80 minutes, or maybe less), then review the marker placements by jumping to them and checking whether these are good break points and interactively adjusting them with your cursor to move them before splitting the entire track. You should probably get tips from someone who has been working with this kind of process recently, and has suggestions.
The way you handle splitting Audible (or other long audio files in iTunes for copying, converting, or burning to audio CD) is by setting the start and stop times for the track in the Options tab for that track which you access with the Command-I "Get Info" shortcut after selecting the track. Then any operations that you perform -- whether it is simply playback, converting to another audio format in iTunes, or creating an audio CD from the content -- only takes effect for the section of the track between the start and stop times. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey listers, > i was wondering if anyone knows of a good program to split mp3 files? > EG i have an audio book that goes for 8 hours i want to split the file in to > 80 minute parts. > i don't want the program to cut the files in the middle of words. > i found a program today but it didn't do a grate job. > > thanks for any help > > Michael <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
