[svlug] linux graphical lossless mp3 cutter?

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:17:24PM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:19:07 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to find a better mp3 cutter, which would basically allow me
> > to cut out pieces of an mp3 (commercial or whatever) without
> > decoding/reencoding the entire file.
> 
> "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"
> Don't do this.
> 
> If you use software that does not at least internally decode and reencode
> the entire file, I guarantee you will get unacceptable results.

Really?  You are aware, aren't you, that the MP3 file format consist of
sequences of independent frames?  You most certainly can chop an MP3 file
at frame boundaries without introducing any loss.  So why are you so
confident that there will be unacceptable results?  There is even a sync
mechanism so that a decoder can recover the frame boundary if the file
is chopped at an arbitrary byte boundary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#File_structure