in reply to Re: MP3's that end Loudly
in thread MP3's that end Loudly

I'm very appreciative of the reply, but I guess I didn't say clearly what I want to program... Let us say that you buy an audio CD and you want to listen to your favorite song. You look at the track listings and see that it's divided into TWO tracks, #1 and #2! The division is at a logical point, yes, but at a point where there is plenty of sound activity. If you tell your player to play just #1, the song will end suddenly. I want to avoid exactly that! Thus if i have a track whose last frames are not silence, I want to flag it to avoid playing that track by itself. So, how can I use a perl module to seek to the end of the MP3 track and check the volume level? Thank you so much. Please don't make me have to ask the C-Monk(ey)s Regards, ADUMAS

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Re^3: MP3's that end Loudly
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2008 at 00:16 UTC
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      I think your suggestion is a good one, as it is, after all, a very audio-mp3-centric issue. Thanks!
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Re^3: MP3's that end Loudly
by jeffa (Bishop) on Nov 21, 2008 at 14:24 UTC

    I would just merge the files then: 

    cat 1-05 Another_Brick_In_The_Wall >> 1-04_Happiest_Days_Of_Our_Lives

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    Is one that works. Remember, some songs merge directly into the next song even though they are completely unrelated. These days I only deal with lossless files and appropriately merge them first before making my MP3 collection.

    I do think your idea is a good one however -- but how will it work for iTunes or XMMS users?

    jeffa

    L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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