On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:19 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
Have you looked at Audacity?
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Note on audacity - If you want mp3 support, you need to build it yourself. Get the src.rpm from Fedora Extras. install lame-devel and libmad-devel - and other -devel packages. The spec file in the extras src.rpm has (or at least to have) instructions in it for how to rebuild it with mp3 support.
There's an alternative called Marlin, last time I tried it (0.7) it worked OK but did crash sometimes. With marlin, you can just yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 and it will support mp3.
I'm not positive, but sox may also be able to join mp3's - again though, you'd have to rebuild it - the sox in fedora does not support mp3.
Why don't you install mpg321 and convert your mp3 files to WAVE? Audacity supports WAVE, and when you get a fully joined file you can burn it to CD or use any other open-source converter to render it in Ogg Vorbis, if you really need space, or FLAC if you can stand a slightly larger file. (FLAC, if I understand correctly, is lossless, while Ogg Vorbis is a lossy compression scheme that "loses" things in places different from those where MP3 "loses" things. WAVE, of course, is uncompressed.)
Temlakos
