Help Making A Bunch of mp3's one Long mp3

[terpkristin]

Is there an easy way to take a bunch of individual mp3's into one long mp3, one right after the other?

I've got a book on CD that I have imported to my hard drive as mp3's. The way the book is broken out, each chapter is a new mp3 track. To save hassle when listening to it, I'd like to basically combine all the tracks into one long mp3. I'm trying to do it using Audacity but find I have no clue as to what I"m doing and apparently keep combining one track on top of the other, instead of combining sequentially.

Can anybody help?

Thanks,
/tk

[saldana]

i just put all the tracks in order and saved it as a playlist. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was well over 200 tracks and my MP3 player ran them all seamlessly as a playlist.

[MJ4H]

You can do it with Audacity.

1) Project - New Stereo Track
2) Project - Import Audio
3) Click on the left side tab for the track you just imported (to select all) and then copy to clipboard.
4) Click on the left side tab for your new stereo track at the top.
5) Paste
6) Close the track you imported (click the x in the upper-left)
7) Project - Import Audio (for next chapter)
8) Select all and copy to clipboard as above
9) place cursor in top track (the one you made at the beginning that has your first chapter) after the audio that's already there. Paste
10) Close imported track.
11) Repeat.
12) Export.


Probably easier ways, but Audacity will do the trick.

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by saldana

i just put all the tracks in order and saved it as a playlist. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was well over 200 tracks and my MP3 player ran them all seamlessly as a playlist.

I can do that, but I like to keep my stuff set to shuffle songs and repeat tracks. If I do it as a playlist, I have to remember what track I was on when I move away from it and turn of the shuffling for that part, would be much easier to have it all as one big track. And there aren't an insane number of tracks. I suppose I could change my settings, but that would just annoy me.

/tk

[cthomer5000]

Could be a pain depending on how many tracks you're talking about, but certainly doable with audacity.

[saldana]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

I can do that, but I like to keep my stuff set to shuffle songs and repeat tracks. If I do it as a playlist, I have to remember what track I was on when I move away from it and turn of the shuffling for that part, would be much easier to have it all as one big track. And there aren't an insane number of tracks. I suppose I could change my settings, but that would just annoy me.

/tk

i did have those issues...audio books are interesting when they are accidentally left on shuffle.

[DaddyTorgo]

I need a freeware dvd audio ripper. Any suggestions? I see lots of freeware cd audio rippers, but will those work?

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

I need a freeware dvd audio ripper. Any suggestions? I see lots of freeware cd audio rippers, but will those work?

What exactly are you trying to do?
I have a program that basically decodes DVDs into the movie part and the audio part (so that I can re-code them to watch on my pocket pc).

/tk

[FrogMan]

I've not tried it, but this freeware came up in my search just now...
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mp3albummaker.html

From their description:

MakeitOne MP3 Album Maker allows you to join selected MP3 files into a single file that is compatible with any MP3 player and tag editor. The resulting file is basically a single, large MP3 file that contains the copy-merged tracks. The program can also unpack any album that was created with the software.

looks pretty much like what you want to do...

FM

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

What exactly are you trying to do?
I have a program that basically decodes DVDs into the movie part and the audio part (so that I can re-code them to watch on my pocket pc).

/tk

basically that tk...I am just under the illusion that with a dvd audio ripper it might be a little more powerful/cut out some of the steps versus a straight decrypter (which of course I have too)

[JPhillips]

Daddy: There seems to be a DVD ripper on Give Away of the Day every two or three days.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Daddy: There seems to be a DVD ripper on Give Away of the Day every two or three days.

yeah. I DLed one the other day. havn't had a chance to play with it and see if it will do. just figured I'd post in this thread and see if anyone had any favorite tools for the job that they heartily recommend.