Re: tools for losslessly manipulating mp3s

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

Dear nia,

On 2021-08-17, nia wrote:
> yo pkgsrc-users@,
> 
> for Legacy Reasons, I have a significant collection music that
> is only available in MP3 and is no longer available for purchase
> (etc.). Some of this music was clearly recorded from vinyl and
> other sources without properly removing the last part of the
> previous track.
> 
> I wonder if there's any software in pkgsrc (or that I could package)
> which can cut MP3s without re-encoding them or causing any loss in
> quality.

Would something like this work?

  ffmpeg4 -i bsd415.mp3 -ss 00:00:10.150 -to 00:00:30.100 -codec: copy /tmp/test.mp3

which copies segments with timestamps 00:00:10.150 through 00:00:30.100.
I am not sure how time-accurate it is, it depends on the lengths of the
segments.

-- 
Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy