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Great hint! -- one thing though
Authored by: das_2099 on Feb 01, '03 10:31:41PM
If you have songs that are topping in over 20 minutes, you are sucking the life out of that iPod battery. As the song tops 20 min, the cache is filled and the disk is constantly accessed. YOu might want to split that long tape -to-MP3 conversion up a bit. try mpgtxwrap

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Other methods of splitting MP3s
Authored by: ret on Feb 02, '03 08:31:11PM

Two other ways of splitting up huge MP3s into song-sized bites:
1. Jam (part of the Toast bundle, costs $), but designed to do this very thing. Requires the original AIFF format rather than MP3 as well.
2. iMovie. Think I read it here, if you import the song into iMovie, you can crop it using the time-line. Then empty the trash to make the change permanent, and close iMovie. In your project folder you'll find the neatly truncated MP3, which you can import back into iTunes. You'll need to do this twice if you're using it (as I do) to separate out a hidden track into its own file (and getting rid of that five minutes of silence that precedes it... grrr)

cheers
RET



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