I would say the term you're looking for might be "production" or "post-production." Some of the production work can be automated, and some cannot.

MP3 format is a stream of chunks. I think for the most part, chunks are independent. There are modules that let you find the chunks and then you can order or redact them any way you like.

However, even if you decode each MP3 chunk to examine it as a waveform, it's not necessarily a computationally trivial task to decide if the chunk is "useful" or "chaff" which you can skip.

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In reply to Re: MP3 Concatenation by halley
in thread MP3 Concatenation by dimar

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