So what about joining MP3s?

[actng]

So I searched and found the awesome program MP3DirectCut and managed to cut a larger MP3 into smaller ones. What I'm actually doing is trying to rip the audio from a concert DVD into MP3 format.

Turns out the DVD is divided into 5 VOB files. I managed to rip the audio from them creating 5 MP3 files. But the trick is that the songs don't end with the file... so track 6 for example, the first half will be at the end of the first MP3 and the rest of track 6 will be in the beginning of the second MP3.

What I need to do is join the MP3s together.

I realize Google will prolly throw back tons of results, but I need something like MP3DirectCut. Something free and I mean free as in freeware not illegalware.

[jollyeskimo]

You can always use a wave editor to splice everything together, and re-encode to your liking.

Creative sound cards all come with wavestudio I think, or you could use something like Audacity.

[actng]

Audacity seems to do the trick!

The joined MP3 seems to work - haven't had a chance to go through all 114 minutes of it yet. Where the joins are though, there is a subtle albeit noticeable gap.

[rabbit]

MP3DirectCut can join MP3s by copy/pasting.

The better alternative, in your case, is to rip out the protection from the DVD/vob files, then use DVD2AVI to extract the audio into a single wav file.

NOTE, there's some other software that has replaced DVD2AVI, and it is suppose to correct some framing bug, but for the purpose you are using it here for, DVD2AVI is just fine.

[Daijoubu]

Can't you cut&paste with mp3DirectCut?

I wouldn't use a wav editor as re-encoding means lost of quality eh