shnsplit, splitting FLAC

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I feel like I'm missing something obvious here and I've been searching for hours trying to split a flac file into a few separate flac files. I use this command:

shnsplt <filename>

Then I enter the split points in m:ss format, but I don't know what to enter to indicate the final split point (which happens to be the end of the file in my case). The man page is not helpful.

[satanselbow]

What you need my friend is the most excellent "flacon"... which isn't in the repos for reasons known only to... dunno who...

https://launchpad.net/~flacon/+archive/ppa

Essential CUE/FLAC splitting software if ever there was some - enjoy

EDIT: Just re-read your original post... Have you got a cue file? If not it is simple to create your own using the info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_%28computing%29

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I just put the times into a text file, one per line, and used the -f option. That worked, but I'm still wondering how to specify <eof> on the terminal (and it's not entering no input).

[MoreOrLess]

What you need my friend is the most excellent "flacon"... which isn't in the repos for reasons known only to... dunno who...

https://launchpad.net/~flacon/+archive/ppa

Essential CUE/FLAC splitting software if ever there was some - enjoy

EDIT: Just re-read your original post... Have you got a cue file? If not it is simple to create your own using the info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_%28computing%29

Thanks for the suggestion. I saw it when searching, but it seemed like massive overkill to split one flac file and I really want to know what I was doing wrong.

[satanselbow]

Every audio CD that comes into my house gets backed up as CUE/FLAC before the kids / dogs destroy them so it falls into the "essential software" category for me

Cue + Flac is like Bread + butter so it seems logical to use the app designed for the job

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The first thing I do with CD's is rip them into flac before they get scratched. The reason I don't create a cue file when ripping is because music players read them as playlists and create multiple entries when I add the CD directory.

Anyway, I was splitting a "hidden track" that's on the end of a CD after a long period of silence, so I don't think that would have shown in the cue.

Thanks for the tips, though.

[shantiq]

Commandline with SoX if you have no cuefile

TRIM AND SPLIT AUDIO


sox filename.flac 1.flac --show-progress trim 0 02:00 && sox filename.flac 2.flac --show-progress trim 02:00 01:13

on a file called filename lasting 3:13
if you wish to split in 2 files one 2 min and one 1:13



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yes flacon is good too and cokeid split-lossless script too bOth of these require a cuefile. They are for splitting single file lossless albums if that is what you are after shnsplit is clumsier than those 2; anyway i put the info for that too further down ; flacon is really good


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if one wants to use shnsplit and you have a cuefile [answer to your original question]

you need

sudo apt-get install cuetools

Shnsplit requires a list of break-points with which to split an audio file. Conveniently, cuebreakpoints prints the break-points from a cue or toc file in a format that can be used by shnsplit. You can pipe the output of cuebreakpoints to shnsplit as follows:

cuebreakpoints sample.cue | shnsplit -o flac sample.flac

In this example, a flac file called “sample.flac” is split according to the break-points contained in “sample.cue” and the results are output in the flac format.

The output file format is specified via the “-o” option. If you don’t specify an output format your split files will be in shntool’s default format (i.e., wave files, “wav”). you can also use -o wv -o shn -o ape

here is all the info you need

[shantiq]

Anyway, I was splitting a "hidden track" that's on the end of a CD after a long period of silence.

Commandline with SoX if you have no cuefile

TRIM AND SPLIT AUDIO

sox filename.flac 1.flac --show-progress trim 0 02:00 && sox filename.flac 2.flac --show-progress trim 02:00 01:13

on a file called filename lasting 3:13
if you wish to split in 2 files one 2 min and one 1:13