Does this handle VBR files? gapkiller did a really bad job w/ vbr files, adding a loud noise at the beginning of tracks that it worked on..

It can cleanly split/trim either VBR files or CBR files, and in fact, if it was ever even able to open a vbr file at all, then it was able to split/trim it cleanly on the frame boundaries.

It shouldn't add any noise to the files at all. It very carefully doesn't damage any frames whatsoever, writing only whole frames back down to disk, splitting cleanly at frame boundaries. For instance, if you analyze the file with MP3Trim after trimming or splitting, you should see a perfect file with no damaged frames (assuming you started with a perfect file to begin with, of course).

In my experience, there might be a little "volume drop" at the gap point because the bit reservior is effectively null at that point, but whenever I play the trimmed files, I never get any added noise. What WinAmp gapless plugin were you using to play the files with? Try the one linked at my web site if you weren't using it already. I experimented with a different gapless plug-in, and it induced noise in many cases for me (not just trimmed files).

Also, feature request - auto split in 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 minute, etc increments...

That was actually the only thing that MP3Splitter did successfully, so I didn't think I needed to duplicate it. I only needed my feature so I could specify exact times for the sorts of things that I need to do.

Hmm, I think I know how I could go about adding that feature though. I'll mull it over for a while and see what I come up with.

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Tony Fabris