Re: How to split the wave files into smaller pieces?

From: Danno (TooMuchSpam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:59:08 GMT

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:57:47 -0700, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
> Fabio wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> does anyone know how to split the big wave file into smaller pieces? I
>> want these files to be playable - I don't want to merge them again. I
>> don't want to use any wav editing software because opening and saving
>> the file can take too much time. I started to record the internet radio
>> stream and forgot to stop it before leaving my desk. When I came back
>> today morning there were two large wave files on the disk (about 10 GB
>> each).
>
> Can't be done easily. Each WAV file has a RIFF header. You would have to
> create this header, make appropriate adjustments to some values, then use a
> program to split the big original file into sections and add the header to
> each section.
>
>

  I'v enever used it, but I've seen "Audacity" suggested for almost all audio
work.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/audacity/ 

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