Re: Q: [OT] concatenating audio files

On 16 Mar 2009 at 11:47, Ralph Giles wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Ulrich Windl
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Can I simple concatenate the flac files to make on big file (and then reencode
> > that), or do I need special tools. Those sound chunks end in the middle of tracks,
> > so I need a perfect solution for clear sound.
> 
> You can't concatenate flac files directly. Sox can combine them for
> you. For example:
> 
> sox part1.flac part2.flac part3.flac all.flac
> 
> will make a new file called 'all.flac' which consists of the
> concatenated audio from each part. If you sox was built without flac
> support, decode each part to a .wav file, run sox on the .wavs and
> then recompress all.wav.
> 
> Also, most tools will handle concatenated vob files, so you can try
> 'cat'-ing those together before extracting the audio in the first
> place.

Ralph,

thanks for your suggestions. Your latest procedure will need most disk space 
however. I'll try to find out whether the extractor can produce one output file if 
I specify multiple input (VOB) files.

Are there any audio output file formats at all that can be concatenated?

Regards,
Ulrich