[vorbis] Re: how to cut a vorbis file?

[Michael Smith]

At 12:00 PM 3/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> No, this would mean decoding and re-encoding the file. vcut doesn't do
>> that, it just splits the file.
>
>That brings up an interesting question.  I've vcut a bunch of files...
>removed commercials etc, and then
>
>cat file.ogg file2.ogg > newfile.ogg.
>
>Works great, now I have a nice file without all the annoying chaff.  So,
>later I decide to go back and cut out just an individual song.  Hmm, vcut
>only reads up to the boundary of the first cat'ed file.  Anybody know how to
>work around this?

This is correct, and the tools don't currently do what you want. It's
possible, but someone needs to write tools to do it.

Michael

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