skipping defined sections of a song.

[Nova5]

does a script exist for this purpose? i need to skip the last 45 seconds of a song thats just total blank space since i can't find a program to cut it out and not reencode the file back to MP3. would rather it just save the cut version as MP3 but not compressed a second time. something says that a difficult prospect thou.

[DumbPoet]

Have you tried using Audacity?
It seems like you should be able to just edit the MP3 using that.

I feel pretty confident that an editing solution is going to work much better than a scripting solution in this case.

[Nova5]

Audacity won't do it. it reencodes, thats the step I'm trying to avoid. I didnt know if there was a script for playing certian sections of a song allowing someone to make a mashup type song, 30 of this, 20 of that, 30 of another, etc. Looks like the recompression is unavoidable with its increased loss of data.

[DumbPoet]

I poked around a bit and here are some editing solutions:

http://www.deepniner.net/mp3trimmer/
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dv ... io-Dub.htm
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/masters.html
http://www.wavosaur.com/

I can't pretend to know how well any of these programs work.. but it appears that you can use all of them on at least a trial basis. It sounds like you want the script for more than just cutting out the space of one song, so maybe I'm still off the mark here.

[Nova5]

thats what i want, but a mashup script would work against a single song as well i suspect. Either way it looks like i am just stuck with the edit of the song. I'll look into those. thanks.

[hintergrundrauschen]

There was a post about something similar here http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27152. I'd appreciate an MM internal solution, too, since it already is able to skip silence at the end. Until then I use mp3DirectCut.

[Nova5]

directcut (which was recommend a few minutes ago my someone else on another forum) is a good solution. clips out the section of the file with a recompression stage needed. MM doesn't need a internal solution to this, we don't need this to turn into a full blown editor as well as library app. just a script that would let you do this by a side effect would have worked for one song for this purpose.

managing the music for my cousins wedding. so i dont need a 30-45 second dead space if i can help it.