From: Robby Russell <robby@...>
Date: 2005-04-07T08:39:24+09:00
Subject: Re: chopping up a music file

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 07:55 +0900, Matthew Margolis wrote:
> I am working with a band right now and they want samples of all their 
> songs made so that they can post music on their site without giving 
> everything away.  The samples should be about 20 seconds long and mp3 
> files.  There are quite a few files that need to be sampled so I am 
> looking for a fast and automated way to create files that are only 20 
> seconds long.  Is there any ruby library that might be applicable to 
> this challenge? 
> 

Try this for some examples of using sox:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5894

-Robby

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