Big Trev

You wouldn’t believe how hard it was to find the answer to this (or maybe I was just asking the wrong question!).

I’ve been looking for software to join a bunch of MP3’s together - basically for mix CDs which end up with a bunch of separate mp3’s, and when played on a player end up with an annoying little gap between the tracks.

Hence, I’ve discovered mp3wrap. It’s available in the repos, and it’s as easy as doing the following in a folder full of the mp3’s you want to join:

mp3wrap -v myalbum.mp3 *mp3
(the -v lets you see what it’s doing)

It seems to stuff the time information (ie. the mp3 goes for over an hour but the progress bar says 3 min something). I’ll have to try it on an iPod and see how it goes.

(update) - looks like it doesn’t work that well - my mp3 stopped playing at the end of the first original track (in Totem). It still thinks it’s 3:30 long… Back to the drawing board…