chopping up a music file

[Matthew Margolis]

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?


Thank you,
Matthew Margolis

 

[Aredridel]

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?

I think there's a ruby-soundfile, but honestly, if you're on unix, I'd
be shelling out to sox. I might use Ruby (or Rake!) to automate it, but
I'd let `sox` do the dirty work.

Ari

 

[Matthew Margolis]

Thanks unfortunately I am stuck on a windows box for the few weeks as my
linux box is halfway across the country and shut off. I guess I can
just look into using some sort of cheap commercial sound software.
If anyone else knows of a solution I would love to know.

-Matthew

 

[Matthew Margolis]

Dead site.

-Matthew

sox for windows:

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SoX_win/

-RObby