Gluing two mp3 files

[Anthony Messina]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:01:49 +0930
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 16:07 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>>> You could also do something like this:
>>> cat *.mp3 > filename.mp3 
>> I'm curious as to what would happen if you tried that with files that
>> were encoded with different rates.
> 
> Hello, Tim
> I need to get to bed now, but I must admit that that sounds like an
> interesting idea.....  I'll try it tomorrow and see what happens :)
> 
> OK, I couldn't wait: I decoded the four files I used in my test earlier
> into wav files.  I then encoded them at 96, 160, 256 and 320kbs.
> Before I encoded them at different bitrates, they totaled 17 minutes
> and 6 seconds.  I then ran "cat *.mp3 > filename.mp3 on the four
> files.  I then proceeded to open up the new file in XMMS, and it
> detected it as being over 40 minutes long :)  I then proceeded to skip
> to the parts where the songs were supposed to fade out, and guess
> what?  Even though it was a live album, the songs flowed together
> perfectly.  It was kind of funny watching the bitrate indicator in XMMS
> change when the song changed.  K3B correctly detected the length of the
> file.
> 
> Have a Great Night,
> Steven P. Ulrick
> 

this all also works with ogg vorbis files. -a

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