I have downloaded several MP3s that are too long to fit on one CD as an audio file. Most I can edit into two files before I burn them to CDs. Some will not open in an editor (Sound Forge or Cool Edit 2K) I get the message raw file, no header info or unknown format. Is there a way to either add the header info or other trick to edit these files? Thanks
Sounds like corrupted files. Can you playback them on Winamp, or somewhere else? BTW, if you want to cut MP3, I recommend using MP3directCut. It saves quality since you don´t deed to reencode the streams. http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/ Regards; Roberto.
1. You could try some direct mp3 editing programs like mp3directcut (get it at afterdawn.com software section - there are some other programs that could be useful too BTW.) 2. Can you play them back with your audio player, e.g. Winamp - Then you can use winamp diskwriter plugin to decode to .wav. 3. There are some tools called uncook and vbrfix that handle some problems that can cause corrupt mp3 files - before trying make a copy of the files. BTW: If CoolEdit tries to read something as a raw file this means it has no idea how to handle it otherwise. If you try to open a .doc in CE the same will happen. It's probably wrong to think there's no mp3 header because of this. (There's something corrupt for sure, but it can be anything else). [EDIT]: too slow :'B
The files play with Real Player but will not play in Win Media Player. They will also burn directly to CD. My first thought was that they were a differnt flavor of MP3.
They burn directly to CD? To audio CD or to data CD containing the mp3 files? If it's the former, you could probably use your burning software (if it's Nero use Nero wave editor) to decode to .wav. If this doesn't work: The files play in realplayer. What *I* would do is this: Take XMPlay (http://www.un4seen.com), select WAV Writer as Wave Device, load the files - and press play. -> The files will be saved to disk as .wav and you can cut them with CEP... You could use other audioplayers for this that support Diskwriting, like foobar2000 or Winamp 2.x (needs diskwriter plugin). Or try some mp3 decoders from www.afterdawn.com software section, e.g. lame.exe --decode <filename> from commandline.
Thanks to tigre and all for the help! XMPlay writes the MP3 files to wav and I'm sure I can now edit them down. Many of my MP3 files seem to not play in Win Media Player but will burn to CD as audio or data file. They also play in RealPlayer. That's fine except for the ones too long for a audio CD. But this seems to be the solution! Thanks again! Perhaps Win MX is part of the problem however I still like the app overall.
