Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

david wrote:

> I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player.

Thats probably MP3 audio data inside a WAV container (much
like you can have vorbis, speex or flac data inside an Ogg
conatiner).

> I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but
> Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it.

Audacity and sweep both use libsndfile which sees a WAV file header,
but isn't able to read the MP3 data [0].

> After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other
> programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file,
> so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity
> still don't like it :(
> 
> I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions?

Use mplayer to export it to a standard PCM WAV file and then
edit it in Sweep or Audacity. When you are done editing it, you
can re-encode it as Ogg (or even mp3).

Erik

[0] http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/FAQ.html#Q020
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