Posted by fred-bloggs on 12/20/05 11:35

Phaeton <phaeton@iinet.net.au> wrote in
news:43a7e6ba$0$14671$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:

> G.M.T. wrote:
>> How do you use MP3DirectCut to join two existing mp3 files? I find I
>> can open one file, but when I try to open another it simply
>> overwrites the first!
>
> I've done it, it took me a bit of time to figure it out.
>
> First, just to be sure, copy the two files into a temporary
> directory. Open the one you want to be appended first, then
> "Edit" and "Select all", now select "File" from the top, then
> "Append all/selection to" and select the other file to which
> you want to add the selected part. Then just "Quit". This is
> *probably* not the right way to do it, because the resulting
> file's properties only show the second file's bitrate, time, etc.
> But the content is both files. I have done it the proper way, but
> I have to find out how I did that. I think you have to cut them,
> then "Save all", etc., but it takes time figure it out. I
> appended about 5 files together, a live medley, into one file and
> it shows the correct accumulated time, etc. If you really want to
> know, let me know and I start to play with some temporary
> files...
>

This works in Mp3DC v1 but I cannot find such in v2.
v1.38 is available from
http://www.4yougratis.it/d_load/count.php?id=199

MusiCutter joins mp3s
http://musicutter.szm.sk/

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fred

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