Trimming and fixing an MP3 file
April 15, 2008 — techxplorer
I had an issue with a MP3 audio file today. Essentially the was this odd sharp beep noise at the beginning of the track, and it would fail to play the first time you tried. This happened in both Rhythmbox and Totem, which isn’t surprising as I believe they both use the GStreamer framework for decoding media streams.
I fixed the MP3 file by using the mpTrim application to trim off the first second of the file. This is a Windows only application, which fortunately worked flawlessly under Wine on my laptop running Ubuntu Linux.
Anyone who has the need to edit MP3 files in this way I encourage you to check out the application.
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