Tracking Album .mp3's

[jwhairybob]

I've recently been downloading entire albums in 1 file as an .mp3. I was wondering if there were any programs that let you take that .mp3 and split it into the tracks of the album, so you had a track for each song. Thanks.

[v8juice]

If the post includes a cue sheet it is possible to recreate the cd it came from... But if it's just one mp3, I'm not sure about that, .wav files are the way to go.

[jwhairybob]

but with what program? I've got sonar, but that would be time consuming. I was wonderin if you could just punch in some #'s and it would split em up for you. Maybe not.

[llbbl]

Well it wouldn't be that hard to make a program that did such a thing. Isn't the whole point to put the albumn on cd anyways? What is the purpose of downloading the whole thing anyways. If you want a single song than search for the song title, not the albumn that it is on.

Here is my suggestion. Purchase / Download a copy of Soundforge or Cooledit. It will open your MP3 into a WAV file so you can edit it. scale down the whole albumn so you can see the entire thing or just fast forward until you come to a break. Select everything before that and do a cut and paste into a new file. This is going to take a while because you are editing large files. I don't think that would be able to edit the file directly because as you know MP3 is a form of compression. Just as a zip / rar file you must undo the compression before you edit the content. I could see a program that would search for that break between songs and cut the file at that point automatically. It might be built into one of those programs that I mentioned. I am not sure, you will have to look. Let us know what you find.