Ubuntu Multimedia :: Many Small Audio Files Combined Into One Long One?
Dec 26, 2010
I have several audiobooks that are each split into many small chapters, and I would like to string together about ten of them at a time, so that I don't have 60 4-5 minute mp3 files per audiobook.If I were to do this all by hand, with audacity or something similar, it would get very tedious, so I'd like to know if there's already a program that would do it for me when told which files to string together.
I'm having a problem where almost every audio player creates a 2-3 second delay after playing any audio.
I'm working on some text-to-speech using espeak and festival. Festival would provide much better speech quality, but it created a 2-3 second delay after any speech before the application exited, which prevents using it. When I started investigating the issue, it turned out that many other programs display the same behavior.
For example, if I play a 1-second WAV of silence using "play", it displays "Done" very soon and then waits for 2-3 seconds before exiting. mplayer does the same. mpg123 does the same. mpg321 does the same. ogg123 does the same.
When playing multiple files mpg123 and ogg123 do not generate the pause between the files, but mplayer does. I'm wondering can there be a bug that causes programs to hang when closing the audio device?
That's so many programs it must be some kind of problem in the system, not the individual programs. However not every program displays this behavior; espeak exits immediately after the speech has ended. (Might it for instance exit without closing the audio device properly?)
I haven't noticed anything similar before I upgraded to 10.10. I'm running XUbuntu on a Thinkpad T60. The laptop has an Intel HD Audio with AD1981HD codec [url].
There are md5 and/or sha1 checksum files for the CentOS 5.5 ISO files, e.g. "part 1 of X". However there is no checksum for the combined ISO file. I believe we can check the media at boot time, but it would be nice to have a checksum for the combined ISO's and not just the individual pieces. Any file system should do an error free copy, but there is always the possibility of a copy not happening correctly. Is there any official source for the checksum files I'm looking for? There are sums for CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso and 2of2.iso but nothing for CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso.
x86_64 media and their sha1sums are: 0c27f508728f6a96f50e4201cd770fe9e57af3e2 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso ff57db0cf9af9bfc65471f49444ea92cdc238347 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso 0faf38976fbf4053180a25f7535d66b084092059 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso b097bf9b747f2d16da00ff29f1e0d40b523b0a55 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso f1179ec875c0b4792e56f660493e82f0aff5e0f3 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso 009892c8de408dc091e5a96b4a4ab213f2d5fe17 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso 9660e63bd06a68ce94fe98defae1a0806ab834ae CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso 80c74ca2622b9aee3621a13a0cf6dbdc7743b4ee CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso a85d7cd41f49f2146177dae52163d5dca276efc2 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso bb9a2c140170f10ed854541004539890ef7c68c8 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 3a04aa81ef75f329bf245a8c4f02af8137a84fb8 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-LiveCD.iso 231af7ca726557634a1f4d4f57436aab5a75f3b4 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-netinstall.iso
The MD5 sum I get is: ; SlavaSoft Optimizing Checksum Utility - fsum 2.52.00337 ; Generated on 01/01/11 at 10:54:56 ; 9b0d108cb3a80a9ce1eb9c3bcde0aceb *CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso
The SHA1 sum I get is: ; SlavaSoft Optimizing Checksum Utility - fsum 2.52.00337 ; Generated on 01/01/11 at 11:12:17 ; 40d11a8901a6af0c295a284b17dcdb66a83dc070 ?SHA1*CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso
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error: the following is not a file or directory: home/ajpearson/Desktop/Test
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WAIT! VLC does it! OMG YAY! With skips in the audio How can I convert to mp3
Download this: [URL]
It converts any mobile file to a file of your choice, it worked PERFECTLY for my .qcp file, converted it from qcp to mp3 with no problem, no skips, full file.
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[-----START-----] [Info 07:13:23.440] Running Banshee 2.0.0: [Ubuntu 11.04 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-06-28 05:46:57 UTC] [Info 07:13:28.765] Updating web proxy from GConf [Info 07:13:28.998] All services are started 4.668005 ** (Banshee:2341): DEBUG: SyncDaemon already running, initializing SyncdaemonDaemon object
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