-i <file>

input file to edit

-O <file>

forced output filename

-o <output_prefix>

prefix of generated output filename (e.g. <output_prefix>0001.mp3, <output_prefix>0002.mp3, ...)

-a <mm:ss.xx>

starting position of selection to write to new file

-b <mm:ss.xx>

end position of selection to write to new file

-f <timetable_file>

use a timetable to extract several sequences from a given file. The timetable must have the following format: "<start_position> <end_position>" e.g.:

0:01 1:00 11:15 19:33 01:01.34 02:39.78 1:0 -0:05

Negative values mean distance from the end of file. Note that the options [-a] and [-b] override a given timetable.

-e exact searching mode

Switch on exact searching mode, useful for VBR files. Note that [-a] [-b] and [-f] use exact mode as default.

-q quiet mode

Switch on quiet mode, cutmp3 won't make any sound, useful for debugging and commands using a pipe like: "echo 7a9bsq | cutmp3 -i file.mp3"

-c copy metadata

Copies metadata in non-interactive mode. Useful to keep ID3 tags when using -a -b or -f.

-d 2

use the second soundcard (/dev/dsp1)

You can seek to the end of the next silence by pressing [p] (for pause) or to its beginning by pressing [P]. By default the silence should last for 1000 milliseconds, which is one second, and the maximum volume during this second is the minimum: 1 (whatever that is in dB).

You can change:

- the length of the silence by pressing [n] or [m] and - the maximum volume during this silence by pressing [+] or [-].

You can seek to the next ID3 tag by pressing [T]. This is useful in case someone has merged several mp3s into one file without removing the ID3-tags.

For other useful keycodes type [h] in interactive mode.

Please note that cutmp3 only accepts one inputfile, so using wildcards like [?] or [*] in filenames will result in editing only the first file that matches.

cutmp3 -i file.mp3 -o blah

2) If you only want to cut a file once and you know the times for start and the end, you type:

cutmp3 -i file.mp3 -a 0:37 -b 1:25

and cutmp3 will write the passage of file.mp3 starting at 0:37 and ending at 1:25 to blah01.mp3

3) If you want to cut a file more often, you need to create a file which contains a timetable and type (Please read README.timetable for details):

cutmp3 -i file.mp3 -f name_of_the_timetablefile

4) Only print total number of frames, sampling frequency, number of channels, average bitrate, MPEG version and total time in milliseconds, in this order:

cutmp3 -F -I file.mp3

5) If you want to clean an MP3 from any data that is not sound, just use (Cutting in interactive mode does _not_ remove invalid data!):

cutmp3 -i infile.mp3 -a 0:0 -b 99999:0