On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > To: centos at centos.org > From: Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s > > On Sunday 12 December 2010 17:02:27 Keith Roberts wrote: >> I need to remove (or shorten to 5 seconds) any silent >> sections throughout the Mp3 file - not just the beginning or >> the end. > > I usually do this in Audacity (graphical app) and the feature is called > "Truncate Silence". I'm not sure if you need to do this in a console app. > > Also, Audacity will uncompress your mp3 file to perform the edit which then > you can export back to mp3 (transcode). > > I don't know of any app that will trim silence on MP3s in a lossless way. Hi Jorge. Thanks for the reply. I know about audacity, but I want a command line tool that will work overnight, on a batch of mp3 files, each about 15MB per hour. It would be handy if audacity could do this from the command-line as a batch job. I just want to set the job up to run, and come back to it when it's done. Kind Regards, Keith PS The list is quiet today. Hope I'm not loosing anything from it :) -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5