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Old 06-15-2015, 10:20 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
So what would the ideal non-re-encoding program look like? Does it need to be able to find split points for you using silence detection? (I think Audacity does this but I've never tried it) I guess it would need to be a GUI? Have playback capability so that you can find and set the split points in the same program?

The program I use (not for audiobooks) is a command line program that you give a start and end point. You can also give it a list of start/end points and it will create multiple files. Of course finding those points requires scanning the file in e.g. a player program.
I use the silence finder (set at 3 seconds) in Audacity to find the chapter breaks. I check the breaks, mark the chapter numbers in the label track, then use the export multiple files command.

The drawbacks are the time involved to export the files and the supposed quality loss with re-encoding.
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