[CentOS] OT: Package to truncate .mp3 file

[Kwan Lowe]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a 2.9 MB  MP3 file. Would like to use about the first 10%, to
> embed sound on a web page. The Packages I have in Applications > Sound
> & Video don't seem to be able to  edit the file like that. Is there a
> Package I can get from a Yum Repository that will do that? Using
> CentOS 5.5 (32 bit).   TIA!

>From rpmforge look for "cutmp3".

  cutmp3 -i file.mp3 -a 0:37 -b 3:57  copies valid data from 0:37 to 3:57

So you could do:

  cutmp3 -i infile.mp3 -a 0:00 -b 0:10