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It is often the case that we want to split an “one-piece” audio recording into smaller files. A live concert could be broken down into songs so that you can burn it on a CD, or an interview can be separated into thematic sections. Whatever the case, here are four different ways to do it.
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Personally I dislike GUI programs for this sort of task and generally use two tools not mentioned in this article: split2flac and shntools split function.
The former needs a cue file, the latter takes split times ffrom stdin but you can pipe the results of cuebreakpoints to it.
I've tried Brasero as suggested in this article. But there is no way to output the resulted slices. All you can do is burn the thing as an audio disc. Which results in a pair of .iso and .bin files. Mounter refuses to mount the iso file and vlc cannot open it. Your how-to-guide is kind of left of hanging in mid air at least in what concerns the first option described.
Thanks for introducing me to this feature in Audacity. This is the best way IMO.
I had a bunch of surround sound files which were in a .WAV format and came with a .CUE file. I wanted to place the files on a USB stick so I could play these surround sound files through my Blu-ray players USB input. The fastest and easiest way I found to split up the tracks was to use "K3B". Simply start an audio CD project, drag & drop the .cue file onto the bottom section. This will separate all the files perfectly. Then, click on "Convert Tracks". Choose the output format (WAV in my case) and the destination folder.Then, click "Start" and voila! All done in short order!