[svlug] linux graphical lossless mp3 cutter?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:41:20PM -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> 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.
 
That's the one option I gave in my original mail, and basically it works but
the interface is close to unusable.
 
> Wikipedia says that MP3 becomes patent-free in 2010
> when the Fraunhofer patents expire, but doesn't give
> a source.

That's a problem for whoever is encoding the file., I'm just slicing it :)

Marc
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