I am running Audacity 1.3.0-beta on Fedora Core 4 (KDE).
I can open and import mp3 files. They only open and play, however, in mono. I cannot find any way to open or split this mono mp3 into stereo.
Yes, the original file is a 44100 Hz stereo file, but Audacity opens it in mono, and what seems to be only one (either the left or the right) channel.

I want to be able to edit the one big album mp3 file into separate smaller mp3 files. If Audacity cannot do this, are there any recommendations for other software that can?
Thanks.

I have no idea why your audacity isn't working, but you might be interested in mp3splt instead. It can split the mp3 file without conversion.

Well, I still don't know why Audacity is opening my stereo mp3s in mono, but thanks for the mp3splt suggestion. It splits my files beautifully, and in stereo!!!

The only thing is, I haven't yet got the front-end working, so I'm using the command-line mp3splt. Therefore, I need Audacity to find the right split points and then enter them into the command-line.

Thanks again!

-Ed

I Audacity version 1.3.0-beta and it works just fine. Probably something is wrong with your setup. I think by default playback is set to 1 channel.

Okay, so how do you go about setting it up to play 2-channel stereo? The only 2-channel stereo option I see is in Preferences > Audio I/O tab > Recording.

Either it is Fedora's problem or Audacity thinks your sound card is mono. You can try using sox or other utilities to convert it to wav.

Are you sure the file is stereo because MP3 is just a file format that can handle both one and two channels. Use mplayer -identify -frames 0 [sndfile] to make sure the file contains two channels.

After posting yesterday I played around a bit with the mp3splt gui. The Debian version installed just fine and all seemed to be working ok for me, though I don't really have anything I need to split at the moment. Note that it's a front-end for the libmp3splt library and not the regular mp3splt program, and you also need to install beep media player or it won't run (kinda stupid that).

OTOH, I just discovered that the freedb album lookup isn't working, but it's not the program that's at fault. Apparently the freedb database is under new management and for some reason they've disabled their search function for the time being.

Well, it's stereo in that I can hear one guitar part coming from the left side and a different guitar part coming from the right side. Right now, my mplayer install is hosed, so I couldn't run mplayer -identify.

A possible issue is the low-latency kernel I'm using from PlanetCCRMA (2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma). Whatever the deal, I've temporarily given up until I hear back from the developers of Audacity. I shot them an Email asking about it. We'll see.