Splitting up a 8 hour mp3

[Davros]

I have an 8 hour mp3 (keith richards autobiography)
and i would like to split it up into 20 minute tracks. Ive tried audacity, open mp3 -- select first 20 minutes -- file -- export selection. variable rate, quality level 5 and it took 25 minutes.
So is there a better faster (free) tool for the job ?
Tnx....

 

[gb25]

http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_page/home.php

 

[Otto Dafe]

Is it read by Keith Richards? That would be awesome.

OT: I've used this one before: http://www.nch.com.au/splitter/index.html

 

[Davros]

No, its read by Johnny Depp

 

[Blazkowicz]

does it load inside windows's sound recorder? I remember back in the late 90s how it was limited to 60 seconds but you would trick it to be bigger with using copy/paste or just opening a big file. or how you had a big choice of codecs for .wav file including mp3.

I've tried avidemux and it's very fast at splitting videos. it will create your 20 minutes section in a couple of minutes, that's with mp3 encoding for sound and "copy" method for the video. you can save just the audio soundtrack too.
sadly it doesn't appear to load sound files, only video and image ones.

 

[Davros]

I tried http://www.nch.com.au/splitter/index.html

and it was fantastic, it split my mp3 into 23 20 minute tracks in less than a minute and automatically named them "Keith Richards - Life part1 Part 01 of 23.mp3" ect.

 

[UniversalTruth]

Do you, guys, know what happens with Winamp? Newest version is from June 2012...

 

[Davros]

what do you mean by what happens ?

 

[Tahir2]

AOL happens to Winamp.. now it really sucks the llama's ass... (at least I think that is what it says on loading.)

 

[UniversalTruth]

what do you mean by what happens ?

Lack of updates, perhaps the work on Winamp was suspended...

 

[Davros]

Maybe its completed, shouldnt take 15 years to program a mp3 player

 

[Albuquerque]

Maybe I"m just a grumpy old man, but Windows Media Player does fine for every single one of my ripped albums. I'm not sure that I understand the need for Winamp...

 

[I.S.T.]

Winamp is faster on my PC(Which while it is no spring chicken, is no Pentium 4 or Athlon 64 x2 based thing either) than WMP, plus WMP has a pain in the ass interface. Winamp's isn't that much better, but any improvement is welcome.

Also, Winamp does play more than just MP3s and music files... it's a video player and a streaming app of sorts. I don't use those functions, but they do exist. In addition, the Pro version lets you rip CDs and stuff.

 

[Blazkowicz]

I used it for about ten years, most of it being Winamp 2.x, even after 3 then 5.x were released - 2.x was actually developed for a while, giving the 2.91 to 2.95 versions. And after that 5.x in Winamp 2 mode.
there's no need to constantly change your music player, learn new UI, gain useless features and lose useful ones..
Especially, you at least had enough room for a music player and file manager side by side on a 1024 wide display. Also, right-click a directory, click "play in winamp" and winamp loads instantly.

My grumpy oldness gets me back to when the "new" Windows Media Player 7 and later were pigs that looked like crap IMO, and when Windows Media Player 6.0 or 6.4 didn't support playlists anyway (nor even double-click to fullscreen video or change volume with scrollwheel, but it served me well for video)

Then I used Audacious, a Winamp 2 clone (using the same skinning system, only the backend is different) - earlier on linux/unix there was XMMS which did the same thing.
I'm fed up with Audacious currently so I use a new player called 'DeaDBeeF'.

 

[UniversalTruth]

Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years

http://www.winamp.com/media-player/all

It is not the first time they take from us something which we love.

I will continue to rely on Winamp, forever.

Why do they do this to us? What reasons do they have?

 

[Blazkowicz]

Winamp wasn't "on the cloud" or something?, or it's built around playing files from your hard drive or external media, which can't be monetized and tracked.

 

[UniversalTruth]

Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL

 

[nutball]

It is not the first time they take from us something which we love.

I will continue to rely on Winamp, forever.

Why do they do this to us? What reasons do they have?

​

Have you tried mailing the original authors of Winamp to ask why they sold out for tens of millions of dollars?

 

[UniversalTruth]

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Have you tried mailing the original authors of Winamp to ask why they sold out for tens of millions of dollars?

First you need to give a reasonable explanation why on earth you changed the appearance of my original post with different sizes and colours...