MRHJr wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to cut out the section of silence between the last track and the "hidden track" on many CDs I have.

mp3asm will do this no problem - just tell it which frames you want to read (it will shove the ranges back together if you want; I normally save as two seperate tracks).

mp3asm doesn't like VBR files, contrary to its documentation. I think fixing this is a matter of changing one constant, but I haven't tried it yet. It's a pity, as it's most appropriate for chopping up VBR files (made with lame -v --no-res to avoid "spreading" the stream across unrelated frames), though if you're cutting during digital silence you'll be okay.

Personally, I rip to RIFF and edit those with XWave before encoding, rather than cutting the MP3 file itself.

All in Debian "woody" distribution and good source sites near you. You don't say which OS(es) you work with; I didn't notice any platform-specifics in mp3asm, but XWave is almost certainly X11-only.

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Toby Speight