[SOLVED] Use Sox to Split file in half

baddah · 03-06-2013, 12:36 AM

Hi,

I'm looking at using using Sox to split an audio file exactly in half. So if the file is 5 minutes long i want to split it into two files of 2.30 minutes each. I know sox as the trim option but the paramater takes time as an option, and i'd prefer not to need to get the amount of minutes beforehand and pass this on. I just want to split the file into half.

Any option in sox that will give me this?

baddah · 03-06-2013, 02:37 AM

OK. i'll just get the size with soxi, and then use trim with start and end values to split the file into two equal parts. This works, but i was hoping sox has some method to just split it in half without needing to the these calculations.

Anyway the above does work so i'll just use that.

shivaa · 03-06-2013, 02:42 AM

What is size of the file? You can consider using split command (see manual here)

michaelk · 03-06-2013, 04:07 AM

split will cut an audio file into parts but they will not be playable. There are other tools depending on audio file type but I like SoX.

shivaa · 03-06-2013, 04:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

split will cut an audio file into parts but they will not be playable. There are other tools depending on audio file type but I like SoX.

Sorry, I was not sure that 'split' can be used on text files only.

@baddah:
You should better use some audio editor.

baddah · 03-07-2013, 07:43 AM

tnx. i used SOX as describe above, and it worked fine. All files split and remixed correctly now

shivaa · 03-07-2013, 08:04 AM

Happy to hear that

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