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portach king
February 7th, 2008, 11:00 PM
Hi Guys,
I was wondering if any of you wonderful folk could recommend a program that would help me in trimming some audio files.
The audio files I'm trying to trim are tracks from a music collection which is supposed to run gaplessly but seems to have tiny moments of silence at the end of each file.

Preferably I would like to find a program that would automatically read and trim the silence (there was a freeware windows program that did this, though the name eludes me). Is there any such program available for linux? I've tried using audacity but the process is long and cumbersome (not to mention boring) when you take into consideration that I simply want to do one small alteration to so many files.
Any help would be appreciated. :)

linuxisfree
February 7th, 2008, 11:27 PM
I use Audacity. Its simple and works for me:D
Although you have to manually trim the file.
Its in the Repositories (Synaptic Package Manager)

EDIT: Sorry, disregard my Audacity post... (a bit sleepy - didn't read your post too properly)

Anyway, i'm sure there are some apps that can do this. Will try to research on that myself...
Good Luck!

jvh100
March 12th, 2008, 03:34 PM
Audacity has thankyfully worked really well with me. It depends on the bitrate you record at however. May I ask why you're trying to clip songs, or a large quantity of songs perse?

oh sorry alright EDIT

yeah there is a program in the repositories that I found, its called "K something gapless" search for gapless and you should find it. It'll apparently play music files gapless