How to make 1 mp3 out of many mp3's

[NoNickNamesLeft]

Hello all.

I have a few Audio Books that have been done in a rather silly way and I would like to change them around a bit.

At the moment each disk from the audio book is set into 7 or 8 mp3's per disk.
Each of these mp3's are only small in size, say around 5 mb to 6mb.

What I would like to do is get all of them small mp3's and make ONE large mp3 per disk for the audio book.

So I need to convert 7 or 8 small mp3's into one larger single mp3.

Can anyone suggest a tool or tutorial for doing this??

Thanks in advance.

NoNickNamesLeft

[daamon]

Hi NoNickNamesLeft,

There's a few steps involved:

1. Click on the "Tools" link in the left pane.
2. Then click on the "Audio Encoders" link.
3. Search through these to find a suitable tool...

You can even order them by "freeware" or rating...

Typical tools are apps like Audacity etc.

[Pixel Land]

Let's do it the easy way: (Also works for mpeg1 video)

Copy all the files to a single folder, bring up a command prompt, point to the folder where the files are, and type the line...

copy /b file1.mp3 + file2.mp3 + file3.mp3 newfile.mp3

where "file1.mp3" -> "file?.mp3" are the names of your actual files, and "newfile.mp3" is the combined result file.

This really works, no software needed.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Use Audacity then copy and paste them to one timeline.

[NoNickNamesLeft]

Ok thanks people, all suggestions look easy enough

Again thanks..

NoNickNamesLeft

[mats.hogberg]

Let's do it the easy way: (Also works for mpeg1 video)
copy /b file1.mp3 + file2.mp3 + file3.mp3 newfile.mp3

This procedure works for headerless file formats, but AFAIK, neither mpeg1 nor mp3 is headerless - If nothing else, you'll end up with a huge MP3 with ID3 tags embedded here and there. Now, maybe an intelligent MP3 player will notice this, and skip the embedded ID3 data, but I wouldn't count on it.
I know the procedure described works for AC3, but AC3 is headerless.

/Mats

[Soixante]

http://www.infamus.com/albumwrap/download

[feenix]

If you are familiar with Avisynth then you can use the following script as a template:-

loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5.4\AviSynth 2.5\mpasource.dll")
a1=mpasource("C:\song1.mp3")
a2=mpasource("C:\song2.mp3")
a3=mpasource("C:\song3.mp3")
a4=mpasource("C:\song4.mp3")
a5=mpasource("C:\song5.mp3")
a6=mpasource("C:\song6.mp3")
audio=a1+a2+a3+a4+a5+a6
return audio

Load this into VirtualDub and convert back to mp3 (Avisynth only produces uncompressed audio) or don't convert to mp3 and convert the resultant wav to mp3 in Audacity or something similar

[NoNickNamesLeft]

The simple COPY /B cmd seemed to work fine.

I now have a more reasnable sized set of 5 mp3 cd's for the audio book, were before I had 6 to 8 .mp3 files for each of the 5 cd.s

They play well through winamp and I haven't noticed anything unusuall in the output.

Thanks again.

NoNickNamesLeft

[pchan]

Try the MP3 Cutter Joiner. Can get a trial copy here.
http://www.mp3towav.org/MP3-Cutter-Joiner/

[yoda313]

Hello,

One more tool is called mp3merge. I don't have the link but just do a yahoo search and you'll find. Easy and straight forward. Good luck

Kevin