automatically cutting a large wav file into x minute chunks?

[graysky]

I have hours and hours of lecture notes I'd like to burn onto CD but the problem is that I don't want a single 65 or 70 minute track. Is there a utility I can use to automatically cut large wav files into a specified number of chunks? Or into chunks of a specified length (say 5 minutes)?

Thanks all!

[t0nee1]

You can use Audacity ,open wav and edit/cut and save to new wav....

[graysky]

right... but isn't that manual is the sense that I have to shot it cut points? I'm looking for something that'll do it automatically preferable from the command line so I don't have to mess w/ a GUI.

[t0nee1]

Guess I missed the "automatically" part...good luck!!!!

[jerryr]

MP3DirectCut looks like it can do what you need.

You can get it from http://www.mpesch3.de

Open your file
Click on Special, then Auto Cue. There you can set the minute intervals. I set it to 5 minutes.
Next, click on File, then Save Split. That will create several files of the specified length.

It's not a command line method, but is very simple.

HTH

Edit:
Oh, darn. just noticed you said they were wav files. This can't open wav files, but, you could use Audacity to convert your files to mp3, then use MP3DirectCut to split them. But then you would probably want the split files as wav files. Oh, well.

[Soopafresh]

I'll bet Sox can do it. Not sure of the syntax, but there should be examples out there.