How to split wavs? Options

[andrew]

I just backup wavs from my DVD( downsampled to 44.1Khz ) and now planning to split them WITHOUT gaps(live concert) so that I can listen to it over at my HiFi rather than playing my DVD player.

I was wondering what is the easiest program to do it.

Thanks.

[dreamliner77]

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[Synthetic Soul]

If you are talking of burning to listen on a hifi I would suggest creating a cuesheet for the WAV file. This means you don't split the WAVE, you just create an accompanying cuesheet that lists when tracks should start. There are some other minor benefits also (maybe just one).

This thread may be of some use.

[cliveb]

Audicity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is a fine general purpose audio editor, but it is absolutely NOT the easiest way to correctly split large WAV files into separate tracks on CD block boundaries. Two programs that make this job much easier are CD Wave and my own program Wave Repair. CD Wave is easier to use, but is not free (about $15, I think). Wave Repair is free if you just use it as a track splitter.

[Synthetic Soul]

As you will see from the thread I quote, I would recommend cliveb's Wave Repair over CD Wave. You get increased accuracy when setting index points.

Not that I've had to use it since testing. Nice to know it's there though.

Thanks again to cliveb.

[andrew]

The file is 120mins. So, I need to split 2x somewhere in the middle. Do I need to physically split it. I can split it and do a fade out for the 1st CD and fain in for the 2nd CD.

If I do the cue-sheet thingy, if I were to rip it to mp3 from the CD. Would it be separated or would I obtain ONE big mp3.

Thanks.

[Hanky]

I am interested in this issue as well. It is easy to write the audio content of a DVD to a wav file using BeSweet/GUI.
But is is a very time consuming job to extract the desired material from that wave file using an audio editor such as Audacity.
My question is:
Is anybody aware of some piece of software that can split the audio while using the title/chapter info from the original DVD ?

[Synthetic Soul]

The file is 120mins. So, I need to split 2x somewhere in the middle. Do I need to physically split it. I can split it and do a fade out for the 1st CD and fain in for the 2nd CD.

If I do the cue-sheet thingy, if I were to rip it to mp3 from the CD. Would it be separated or would I obtain ONE big mp3.

If the file is longer than a CD then you will need to split it unfortunately. I guess Audacity would be the tool of choice, as it is freeware. I don't use it (I use Goldwave) but I'm sure it will be able to do fade in/outs.

If you create a cuesheet for your 120 minute WAVE, or even two for your split files, you can use that to split the WAVE into track MP3s using a GUI tool like foobar, or a command line tool like ACDIR.

If you burn an audio CD using a cuesheet referencing one WAVE file your CD will have tracks just like a commercial CD, and therefore when ripped will split into tracks (unless you specifically choose to rip to an image).

Edit: NB: if you rip to track MP3s using LAME you can still get gapless playback in players that support it, like foobar.

This post has been edited by Synthetic Soul: Jul 17 2005, 11:37

[dreamliner77]

I am interested in this issue as well. It is easy to write the audio content of a DVD to a wav file using BeSweet/GUI.
But is is a very time consuming job to extract the desired material from that wave file using an audio editor such as Audacity.
My question is:
Is anybody aware of some piece of software that can split the audio while using the title/chapter info from the original DVD ?

You can use SmartRipper to rip only the audio and to split by chapter. You then can use BeSweet to convert to .wav