[paranoia] splitting sound files?

[Christopher Jones]

I thought it should be something simple like that. Thanks tons.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> 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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