[svlug] linux graphical lossless mp3 cutter?

Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
Wed Dec 20 15:41:20 PST 2006


begin Joe Buck quotation of Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:33:14PM -0800:

> 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.  

Just grabbed and built mpcut:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Programs/Mpcut/

Doesn't look very up to date, but it does seem to
do what Marc wants -- for some MP3 files.  I get
"Free format not supported" on some, though.

Wikipedia says that MP3 becomes patent-free in 2010
when the Fraunhofer patents expire, but doesn't give
a source.

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Don Marti                    
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