[paranoia] splitting sound files?

[John Lawless]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:34:10PM -0600, Christopher Jones wrote:
> What's a good way to split a -big- sound file (recorded from the radio while I
> was away)? I would play it out into seperate tracks, but I don't have space on
> my hd to do this.

     Sound files can be split very simply using system utilities like head,
tail, or split.  If the file is in raw format, you simply need to be careful
to split it so every part has a size in bytes divisible by four (assuming a
stereo recording with 2 bytes per sample).

     You can split WAV files by first converting them to raw.  Or (if I
remember right) WAV files are just raw files with a header so you can throw
the header bytes away (using, say, tail) and then treat the remainder as a
raw file.

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