Can someone give me some help on how to do this? Here's the sitch: I have this awesome Adam Freeland mix, but it's over two hours long. I would like to split it into two separate files so I can burn them to audio CDs and bump this in my car for the rest of my life. Can someone help me out and point me toward some freeware or trusted programs that I could use to do this?

I actually just had to split a large MP3 yesterday. MP3Splt did the job handily and, best of all, freelily. I split the MP3 using a .cue file, but I'm pretty sure you can split manually as well.

Audacity. You may need to download LAME to use it it though, its been awhile since I had to install/configure it for anyone.

Get Cakewalk Pyro 2004, or a more recent version of it, if they have it; it offers all of your basic functions, such as burning and ripping CDs, but you can split and edit music files, too.

Audacity is garbage; you may only end up with a monaural sound file; at the very least, the version I had can only make monaural sound files.

Of course, if you just wanted to slip your MP3 to me, I could do it for you.

Cakewalk Pyro 2004 cost me about $30 for the downloader; I didn't actually get a physical copy of the program, though you can, but I wanted it immediately when I got it, because Roxio expired on me; the version of Roxio that came with my computer was apparently only a year long trial version (Cheap bastards).

Wow, two very stupid posts in a row. Congradulations.

-Joshua

For those who aren't aware of the technical side of things, most audio apps aren't capable of natively splitting MP3 files. They instead internally decode it to WAV, let you edit that and re-encode the result as MP3 again. Everyone should know that re-encoding lossy formats is a bad idea.

mp3splt is a correct solution to this issue as it works with the native MP3 (and OGG Vorbis) files. All changes it can do (splitting, fading, changing loudness) are done without re-encoding the already encoded file (and as such don't introduce additional artefacts which would occur on re-encodings).

I've plugged it before on these forums but mp3directcut (google it and it will come up promptly) is another free program that can edit MP3s directly without re-encoding.  I haven't used it for files over an hour long so can't attest to how it compares with mp3split in that regard but I've been very happy with its functionality thus far.

I beg your pardon? What's so stupid? And what point are you trying to make in interjecting such a statement?

Suggesting Cakewalk of all programs, combined with calling Audacity garbage that only makes mono files. I'm surprised noone else called you out on it.

-Joshua

What's wrong with Cakewalk? It does exactly what I want it to do. You want 192kbps MP3? GOT IT! You want stereo sound files? GOT IT! You want to split an MP3 into separate parts? GOT IT! You want to apply special effects to make the song sound different? GOT IT!

Audacity, you have to make a number of adjustments to make recordings sound vaguely like music, plus, you also have to download LAME to make it work, which is... *ahem* LAME, pun intended.

Audacity is a VERY fussy program, while Cakewalk is ready for you straight out of the box!

I must have been stupid post #1.

Actually I wasn't aware that Audacity did the decode/reencode when splitting. Learn something new everyday I guess.

The problem with straight out of the box is just that; that's all you'll ever get from it. LAME and all other encoders are not included with Audacity because not everyone uses them. You are free to choose what you want, and its not like setting the path to the LAME application file is that daunting a technical task for the average computer user.

I would say RTFM at this point, but it's clear you've already written it off as too difficult to use. Can't say I'd waste $30 on something that can only encode to 192kbps though.

Well, you might've missed my previous post, but that's not all it does. Just...check out my previous post in this thread.

I only got Cakewalk because Roxio expired on me, but Cakewalk is a hell of a lot better than Roxio, anyway.