Is there any software that would allow me to ...instead of recording whole tracks to make mp3's only record like 45 seconds of a track...like to make sample mp3's.
Im looking for something automated so i dont have to edit each track.
-Paul

http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/foobar2000.php

Case's foo_oggprefiew for foobar2000 sounds similar, but it creates a chained Vorbis stream, not multiple MP3 files.

I don't actually think I've found what you really want, but here is something that might help anyway:

Right, I've had a play with mp3splt and have managed to split mutliple mp3 files by using the following commands at the command prompt:


This will split all the mp3s in the dir and create 45 sec samples of them - in the above example it will split the songs from the beginning (0.00) to 45 secs (0.46) in.



This will split all the mp3s in the dir and create 45 sec samples. But this time it will create as many 45 sec samples per track that it can. I tried this with 3 files and got 22 files.

Tagging is lost though in both examples.

The online manual is here, but when you download it comes with it.

BTW it looks like they've recently updated their code to create a GUI - but you have to compile it I think. I expect/hope they'll release a full installable one soon.