[paranoia] remove leading/trailing silence

[Torkell Tagseth]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:15:01PM +0200, Fredrik Mellstrom wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:38:22PM +0200, Bernhard Kuemel wrote:
> > I could not find a linux commandline tool that removes
> > leading/trailing silence from wav/mp3 files so I started
> > programming one for wav files. If there already is one, or an
> > option in cdparanoia, please tell me via email.
> 
> Oh, neat!  Great idea!  :-)  I don't know of one either, and I've
> wanted a batch tool for this a long time, so I'd definitely use
> it.  Some thoughts / suggestions:
> 
> - Please make it possible to optionally cut off data so that the
>   resulting file is a multiple of whole CD audio frames, 2352
>   bytes.
> 
> - One possible future improvement could be an option to not simply
>   strip silence, but to also *add* a small amount of silence and a
>   fadein / fadeout, to *really* make sure there are no clicks or
>   glitches.

Check out http://shnutils.freeshell.org/shntool/
It lets you shift track boundaries forwards or backwards so that the
data of each file is a multiple of 2352 bytes. It has quite a few other
features as well, like joining and splitting waves.

hth,

Torkell

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