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I got this app to merge MP3 files together that iTunes sells separately but should be played together. I was doing it by hand using Audacity, and it was tedious but got the job done. Simple cad program for mac. As a replacement for creating merged files by hand, this app merges the files well, but it leaves work for me that it should do for me to give it more stars. Looking for the best MP3 joiner for Windows or Mac OS that can help you merge multiple MP3 files into one? You’ve landed in the right place! Movavi Video Editor is a multifunctional yet easy-to-use software program that can help you with a wide range of different video and audio editing tasks like trimming files, adding effects. Jun 23, 2020 The processed audio files can also be shared on social media platforms and can be played using the app. Best MP3 Merger APP Alternative for Windows/Mac. To merge MP3 files on your Windows and Mac systems, Wondershare UniConverter works as the best alternative. This desktop-based software allows merging MP3 as well as all other popular.
Keep in mind that you'll be merging your ID3 tags together too. If you have a tool to strip all tags before you cat them together, you'll be in better shape, standards speaking.
Pretty much all modern players know to ignore garbage in the middle of the file, but some older (especially hardware based) players may either chirp when they get to the merge points or just stop playing all together.
Full backup software for mac. If you're merging tracks that lived in iTunes, odds are there's an ID3v1.x tag on the end of each track (128 bytes long) and an ID3v2.x tag on the front which could be several KB if there's album art, lyrics, or any of the longer IDv2 elements included.
> which just redirects the output to a file (overwriting it if it already exists). Subsequent commands use >> which appends the data to the end of the file. Basic Unix stuff, but handy nevertheless! Or you can just say:
cat first_part.mp3 second_part.mp3 third_part.mp3 > newfile.mp3
all on one line.
What I would really like is some way of splitting a long mp3 into several tracks. Does anyone know how to do this? So far I've only found PC programs that do it.. so it's a no go.
You can split an MP3 track using any number of programs. The first to spring to mind is QuickTime Pro. Open the long MP3, select only the area you want, copy, paste it in a new player and save it. Repeat for all 'segments'.
Just about any audio editing app will do this. A few suggestions for you:
Audacity
Peak LE
Spark ME
Garageband
I bet iMovie might work also.
Ah, but those all involve decompressing the MP3 and then recompressing it after editing, which is slow and loses quality. 
The only app I've seen which lets you edit MP3s without decompressing them is MP3 Trimmer, but I've never used it myself.
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If all you want to do is split a large mp3 into segments of fixed size (say, 2 minutes), try Xmp3split.
I know that cat also works with text files, but what other file types can be merged by simply using cat and still remain usable (e.g., movie files, etc.) If anyone knows about this I'm very curious.
I use 'cat' to join quicktime movies all the time. If I have a movies that will not fit on a single CD then I split them using the 'split' command to burn them and then join them back together using 'cat':
cat file1 file2 file3 > outputfile.mov
Warning, very dangerous practice!
The command
cat * >xx
when executed using tcsh, first creates the file xx, then
expands '*' to include xx, then does the copy. The contents
of xx will be copied into itself forever. I just made a 100 MB file
in a few seconds that way.
In bash, apparently '*' is expanded before xx is created, but if
xx already exists the same disastrous copy-to-self happens.
A better way is to place the output somewhere else temporarily:
cat * >/tmp/xx ; mv /tmp/xx .
Alternatively, replace '*' by a pattern that more explicitly identifies
the input files without matching the output file.
Brendan.
Merge Mp3 Files On Mac
but do your programs also query cddb for split points and auto-split accordingly too?
mp3splt
nuff said.
This hint does NOT WORK AT ALL for mp3 files that are of different bit rates.
If you song1.mp3 is of 128 bitrate and song2.mp3 is of 160 bitrate and you try to merge them using cat then it will fail to play the second song.
All the tracks must be of the same bitrate for this hint to work.
That shit was FAST.
I almost thought it didn't work because it finished in less than a second, but the resulting mp3 plays fine.
Now I feel like an idiot for spending half an hour in Audacity doing essentially the same thing earlier today.
I've been looking for a way to join aif files and have tried this a number of different ways (cat file1.aif file2.aif >> file3.aif, and cat file1.aif > file3.aif ; cat file2.aif >> file3.aif), and while the resulting file is the expected size, when I open it (in Amadeus Pro) it only shows the content from the first file. Do I have to ignore the header of the second file? There is no such option in cat.
I tried it with rtf files with the same results. The content from the second file is missing. It worked with an ls command (ls > file1 ; man cat > file2 ; cat file1 file2 >> file3). What am I doing wrong that it won't work with .aif or .rtf?
There's something wrong with the concatenated file as you suggest dcottle, but I don't know what it is. Neither iTunes nor Quicktime can see past the first file's length in the resulting file. If I open that file in Fission, then save over the audio without changing anything, THAT file is readable normally by quicktime/iTunes. It's my best workaround for the problem that I don't have the expertise to fathom. Any expert tweeks to this thread to make it not suffer from this serious problem would be appreciated. I'm unable to understand how it could work effectively for anyone.. Perhaps it's a more recent version of quicktime that's not reading the headers the way it used to???
cat doesn't work, the file isn't readable in iTunes, it just reads the first file, certainly a problem, with the tags.
Are you looking for a super quick way to merge multiple MP3 files into one big MP3 file? This can be done using the CAT (concatenate) command in Mac OS X. I mean, sure, you could load all the MP3’s back-to-back into a track in GarageBand and then export to a new MP3 file, but who has time for that?
I wanted to figure out how to do this so that I could quickly assemble a brief podcast. I wanted to record my one-take stream of consciousness podcast using a program called Simple Recorder, save the file, then merge it with a preexisting MP3 file that contained the canned podcast introduction. That way, I never have to open GarageBand or any other multi-track audio software. It’s quick. It’s painless. It works (usually).
I have to warn you that the method I’m about to show you is probably not the safest way to merge MP3 files. But, if the files are recorded in the same bitrate, and they are playable in iTunes, then this method should work in most cases.
Using the CAT command you can join two or more MP3 files. For both methods below, we will assume there are three MP3 files in the current directory of the Terminal prompt. They are named file1.mp3, file2.mp3, and file3.mp3.
METHOD 1: Merge Two Or More MP3 Files
cat file1.mp3 > newfile.mp3
cat file2.mp3 >> newfile.mp3
cat file3.mp3 >> newfile.mp3
METHOD 2: Merge Two Or More MP3 Files
cat file1.mp3 file2.mp3 file3.mp3 > newfile.mp3
Simple, right? As long as all the MP3 files are recorded at the same bitrate, it should just work.
By the way, you can also use the CAT command to merge other types of files. The most obvious would be text files, but you can also merge QuickTime MOV files (although I’ve never tested this).