Re: How to cut a MP3 in half?

On Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:52, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:06 -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
I have to upload an mp3 but its to large (and I didnt create it).
Is there a way to cut it in half and then upload it?

Maybe you could just "compress" it to ZIP or tar.gz or whatever format,
since most archivers can split an archives into several small files,
typically to fit it onto multiple floppy disks.

--
Vince

The "old-fashioned way" of doing this, (speaking as an old UNIX support
person), is the following:

uuencode Track.mp3 Track.mp3 > Track.uu
LINES=`wc -l Track.uu`
SPLITLINES=`expr $LINES / 2`
split --lines=$SPLITLINES Track.uu Track

This will produce two uuencoded parts which can then be compressed:

bzip2 Track??

resulting in Trackaa.bz2 and Trackab.bz2

These can be uploaded, and then later downloaded. The reassembly goes like
this:

bunzip2 Track??.bz2
cat Track?? > Track.uu
uudecode Track.uu

You will now have the EXACT original file, no loss of any kind.

cheers
Duncan


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