Hi !

I just created a small tool for fun which can split long mp3 files in case they were created via
copy /b song1.mp3+song2.mp3+song3.mp3 alltogether.mp3
I'm not aware of any tool which can do this automatically. So, I wanted to share it with you in case of interest.

How does it work:
It tries to guess which mp3-frame is the first frame of a new file according to some
bit-reservoir usage statistics.

What's it for ?
For example: If you listen to / record a Last FM-Stream as one big mp3 file this tool can seperate all songs automatically. This works because this radio station does no on-the-fly-encoding. It streams pre-encoded files directly in 128 kbps by concatenation.

So, tell me.... If you are interested (it's written in Java) I could make it a bit more user friendly and release it to the public.

bye,
SebastianG

Don't you think it is a good idea to check for Info/Xing tags too

Sure. Sounds plausible. Thanks for the comment!
Currently there's a very slim chance of missing a track boundary.
I'll probably add the info/xing-tag-check to further minimize
this probability.

bye,
Sebi

Sounds good to me! It always sounds good to the non-coders, of course. I appreciate the effort you are making. I coded for years and am used to users saying, "Yeah, I'd like that." without knowing what it entails.

:-)

i've included the info/xing-tag-scanning. it works pretty well now.
so, if some of you listen to and record radio station streams that just concatenate pre-encoded mp3 files instead of encoding them on-the-fly and you want to split these songs automatically - let me know ...

bye,
Sebi