Scriptable utility for concatenating audio files

Daravon · 08-05-2009, 10:35 PM

I can't get my sound to play back gaplessly, so I'm going to bandaid it by writing a perl script to take a whole album, concatenate all the files into one big file, and play back with mplayer. I need to find something that can jam .flac files together first; I can transcode to something else first I guess but I don't know what to use for that either.

mark_alfred · 08-05-2009, 11:41 PM

audacity might be useful for this.

Daravon · 08-12-2009, 11:59 AM

I can't figure out how to get use Audacity from the command line. Maybe I'll try mencoder but last time I did it kept complaining about no video streams.

Daravon · 08-11-2010, 08:40 AM

I'm bumping this back up. Gapless audio playback in linux is still, as far as I can tell, impossible with current programs.

Guttorm · 08-11-2010, 09:05 AM

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CincinnatiKid · 08-11-2010, 09:31 AM

Take a look at sox and lame. Sox is good for encoding your audio if you want to change the format, and lame will concatenate all of your files. If I remember, I think you use lame like this:

Code:

lame -V2 audiofile1 audiofile2 audiofile3 audiofile4 concatenated_output_file

Daravon · 09-11-2010, 12:30 PM

Lame also compresses the output, doesn't it? I don't want to compress the files, I just want to play them back gaplessly. There are a (very) few gapless GUI players in linux, but no gapless command-line players that I know of.

CincinnatiKid · 09-11-2010, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daravon

Lame also compresses the output, doesn't it? I don't want to compress the files, I just want to play them back gaplessly. There are a (very) few gapless GUI players in linux, but no gapless command-line players that I know of.

I believe you can use the --nogap option with lame. I have not used it myself, but you may want to take a look at it. Take a look at 'man lame' to see all of the options.