splitaudio

SplitAudio is a python program to split an audio file (.wav files initially) in tracks from a list of names and times.

The common scenario is when you have for example an audio of a live event and want to split the audio into smaller parts, for instance songs...

Dependencies

First of all it needs python, It was programmed in 2.7.9. SplitAudio uses the python PySoundFile library to split the audio data and the program avconv to convert the audio files to different formats such as mp3, ogg and aiff.

#How to use? SplitAudio is a command line oriented programm, to use it just execute the command giving the audio file and a text file which contains the list of names and times.

     splitaudio --input <input_file.wav> --list <list_of_names.txt>  <...>

More options

SplitAudio have the following Arguments:

• --input (-i) <input_file.wav> : input file, should be a wav file.
• --list (-l) <list_of_names> : a text file with the list of names and times.
• --format (-f) <mp3 | aiff | ogg> : the output audio format. default is wav
• --keep-wav (-k) : keep the sliced .wav files if other format is configured
• --help (-h) : display help
• --verbose (-v) : print messages

The Format for the list

The list sould have a very simple format:

     <track number>. <Name> <minutes:seconds>

     < ## >. < Name > < mm:ss >

Example:

3. Hello (Buddy) 8:07

#How to Install?

Make sure you have python

To make sure you have python installed just write the command python -v in terminal

     > python -V

Install dependencies

PySoundFile library

To install the PySoundFile library follow the instructions in the documentation, here

avconv

To install avconv in a Debian based system simply type the following command

     sudo apt-get install libav-tools

Make it executable form everywhere

Too make it executable from everywhere in the terminal I recomend to make a symbolic link in a folder included into the variable PATH.

# make the link
ln -s ~/your/repo/folder/splitaudio/splitaudio.py splitaudio
# make it executable
chmod 777 splitaudio
# enjoy
splitaudio

     ----------------------------------------------SPLIT AUDIO-----------------------------------------------
     splitaudio is a python program to split audio into tracks
     from a list of names and times.
      
     Usage:
              splitaudio --input <input_file.wav> --list <list_of_names.txt>  ...
      
     Arguments:
     .......Options.......   .....Arguments.....   .............Description..................................
       Long          Short
     --input        -i       <input_file.wav>      : input file, should be a wav file.
     --list         -l       <list_of_names>       : a text file with the list of names and times.
     --format       -f       <mp3 | aiff | ogg>    : the output audio format. default is wav
     --keep-wav     -k                             : keep the sliced .wav files if other format is configured
     --help         -h                             : display help
     --verbose      -v                             : print messages
      
     Format of the lines in list: 
        <track number>. <Name> <minutes:seconds>
        <##>. <Name> <mm:ss>
        Example:
                 3. Hello (Buddy) 8:07

Enjoy !!