From: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Concatenating MP3s Without Re-Encoding
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:46:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1x8to4ad4h.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316220317.GA23800@starla> (Eric Wong's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:03:17 +0000")
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> Alex Durham <alexjdurham@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the command to concatenate a bunch of MP3s in a directory
>> without re-encoding? I tried a few things but SOX re-encodes to
>> 128bits.
>
> It's not possible to do this with sox; the first thing sox does
> is unencode/uncompress the audio to PCM before doing anything
> further with the audio, including concatenation.
>
> There might be other tools which can work natively with mp3s
> without transocding, but I'm not knowledgeable of them.
> Maybe others can help you, here.
Plain old "cat" will do it if there are no ID3 tags.
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2017-03-16 20:20 Concatenating MP3s Without Re-Encoding Alex Durham
2017-03-16 22:03 ` Eric Wong
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