[geeks] favorite mp3 splitter/joiner/editor?

[sammy ominsky]

On 25/02/2009, at 07:11, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:


> There are plenty of editing suites, Audacity works fine. It's a  
> Linux program,
> but there is a decent port to Windows. There may also be a BSD  
> (Xwindows under
> MacOS) or a direct MacOS port too.

There is.

> AFAIK iTunes does not tag a file. It creates seperate XML tags in a  
> file
> of tags for your entire database. Works great with 100 MP3's, sucks  
> when you
> have 30k.

iTunes definitely does tag the files, and inserts all sorts of other  
information into the file itself.  iTunes is the bane of music torrent  
sites.  If you play the files you're seeding, they no longer match the  
hash created with the torrent.

The xml file is your library data.

What problems have you experience with iTunes and 30k songs?  There  
are 36,051 songs in my library, and I have no complaints whatsoever  
about the way iTunes handles things.  I did have to get really anal  
about tagging my files because iTunes is built for case-insensitive  
filesystems and my library lives on a zfs RAID-Z.  Once I fixed all  
that, though, it's smooth sailing.

--sambo