[dba-Tech] Breaking up an mp3 file

My biggest MP3 is only 64MB in size, but it loaded much quicker in  the freeware version of 
NCH's Wavepad than in  Audacity.

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

A nice feature for Rocky's purpose is that you can click on any point in the file and select 
"Split into two files".   It is instantaneous. You get two windows replacing the original one with 
a part in each.  

Click on another point in one of the two new windows and repeat for four "chunks".

Keep doing that until you have your 10 chunks and then save each of them separately.

Voila!!!

-- 
Stuart

On 18 Jan 2011 at 9:06, Mark Breen wrote:

> Hello Rocky
> 
> I am pasting here a comment from my FIL a few months ago
> 
> >>The software is  called EZ Vinyl/Tape Converter and it comes from
> >>acrowd
> called Mixmeister - it is vastly easier to use than Audacity -the
> comparisonwould between Picasa and Photoshop!!
> 
> I do not know if it will do what you need, but it might be worth a
> shot,
> 
> HTH
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 17 January 2011 03:56, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Lists:
> >
> > I have an mp3 file - an audio book - it's about 250MB.  I need to
> > break it up into about 10 files (don't ask).  Audacity is too slow
> > (takes about 8 minutes just to load the file) and awkward for this
> > (it's great BTW to transpose an mp3 to a different key - I use it
> > for that a lot).
> >
> > Is there something free easy and fast that would get this job done?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Rocky
> >
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