Help ! How to split tracks up

[rab]

If I download an album in mp3 format, that has been done in one track, how can i split it back into seperate tracks that I can selct on my standard hi-Fi

I can convert it to a wav file, but this does not let me select the tracks,

Thanks, Rab

[CitznFish]

not sure how you'd do that except to manually record MP3's and stop them between songs somehow.  How about paying the artist their due and BUYING the album...  

[shmokes]

I converted my father-in-law's vinyl to CD about a year and a half ago.  I would start my PC recording and start the record playing and leave for about twenty minutes.  Then I'd come back and start another recording, flip the record and leave for twenty minutes.  This left me with two twenty minute long wav files which I would open up in a wave editor (I like Cool Edit Pro) and chop them up.  You can usually tell visually where the breaks in songs are cos the heartbeat-looking graphical representation flatlines during the silence.  Anyway, I'd just click and drag, highlighting the length of a song and then I'd choose an option, something like SAVE AS SEPARATE FILE and give it a track name.  

This entire process was done for over 80 albums and we also printed CD labels and front and back CD jewel case covers for each album.  It was a birthday present and his LP player was broken so he didn't even know that we had swiped his record collection even thouth it took us a couple months to get it all done.  Turned out really damn cool.  I'd never again    

Cooledit will edit MP3's too so you can do it the way I did, and I remember seeing a piece of software some guy was selling that he had essentially made "in his garage" that would detect the splits in songs and cut them up for you, but it sounded pretty dodgy so I just did it all by hand.

It's pretty tedious....REALLY time consuming.  You might be better served buying the album or looking for the songs online individually.

[tmasman]

You can do what I do...
I downloaded a free MP3 Player/Maker called SIMPLE45J...

I don't use the MP3 player, just the MP3 Maker...

I use it mainly to record new things (like albums or tapes), convert wav->mp3->wav and to rip CDs to MP3...
Just start playing the wav file w/ whatever player you like best & start Simple recording...
You can set it (in the options) to seperate the recorded file into multiple tracks by "listening" for a certain length silence...  It's a neat tool...

http://www.sofotex.com/Simple-MP3-Maker-download_L4564.html

~ tmasman

[zzsprade]

I had the exact same problem... except it was to cut quiet bits off the ends of songs.

So I found this little program... simple and fantastic.

You just highlight what sections you want to cut out and save it as a new file, go back and open the original file with all the songs on it and repeat. Or maybe there is an even easier way but that's from on top of my head.

Its called:

mp3DirectCut 1.24 (there may be a newer version out)

AND ITS FREE!

-Alex