Any automated method to cut 45 second samples from audio tracks?

[ian_g]

Hi
I'm currently building a website that will include 45 second samples of songs from albums. I'm just wondering if theres some way to automate this as I have quite a lot of samples to create.
My original files are lossless wma but i can convert them to most formats with dbpoweramp - output needs to be mp3 to be playable through a flash player.

[Baldrick]

ffmpeg -i audio.wma -ss 00:00:00 -t 45 -acodec mp2 output.mp2

You could then make batch file for it with a loop that goes through all your wma files.

[ian_g]

sorry to sound dumb but that bit of code means nothing to me
i also made a typo - I meant mp3, sorry

[Baldrick]

It's a command line application that is VERY useful for automated stuff.

Usage:

-Extract ffmpeg.exe to c:\ffmpeg for example
- Open a command prompt (go Start->Run, type in "cmd.exe" and press enter)
- Change to the folder where you unpacked the files you downloaded (for example: cd "C:\ffmpeg")
- Run ffmpeg like in the examples you see, like:
ffmpeg.exe -i <input file> <output file>

Or maybe somone know some easy to use GUI/Frontend that has these features.