[vorbis] Split Ogg Files

Michael Smith msmith at labyrinth.net.au
Tue Aug 7 01:17:17 PDT 2001



>Is there a tool for the opposite?, joining multiple Ogg files.
>
>I recently encoded a CD that had more than one song per track (Babylon5-
>Sleeping in Light). I used Cooledit to cut a track into separate WAV's,
>encoded each one separatly and then simply joined the compressed files
>together. The result was an Ogg file that played perfect in Winamp, and
>also had the proper song title displayed depending on which part of the
>track was playing. It's impressive that a file format can work like
>this.
>
>But this is probably the wrong way of doing it, and I have just made a
>'bad' Ogg file and the decoder is working around any problems in the
>file.

Actually, that's exactly the right way to do it. Some players might treat
it a bit strangely (time display, seeking, etc. might be a bit 'weird' in
some players, though most of them are fine), but they should all play it
correctly.

Michael

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