WAV/MP3 splitter?

[Helevitia]

I've started to record people speaking. Everything is great except I would like to split the audio file into 5 minute chunks so that people can skip around if they need to. Anybody know of a wav/mp3 splitter free or otherwise? If Audacity does it, I can't seem to figure it out.

I've tried a couple of free ones but they suck horribly. Any help is appreciated

[Jammrock]

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks#Automatic_labelling_based_on_silences

http://www.intelliot.com/blog/2007/12/automatically-split-audio-into-songs-with-audacity/

[Helevitia]

Nice! Thanks Jammy, this really helped me out. I thought I'd write down what I did just in case it ever helps anyone else. All of the above instructions talks about breaking up music tracks into their own tracks. This doesn't quite help me because I have a 40 minute audio track of someone talking. I just want to break it up into multiple 5 minute tracks.

With the above instructions, I could do that but I couldn't get exactly on the 5 minute marks because youhave to select the next track point with the cursor and it isn't accurate enough. Luckily I found under the "File" menu something called "Export Labels".

What this does is export a text file with the time and track info. Once I realized the format, I just edited the text file to my liking and then imported back into the audio track. TADA! Perfect 5 minute tracks. Best of all, I can save this file for future recordings and use it over and over again.

For reference, the file format looks like this:

0.0          Track 1
300.0        Track 2
600.0        Track 3
900.0        Track 4
1200.0       Track 5
1500.0       Track 6
1800.0       Track 7
2100.0       Track 8

Just paste the above in a text file, edit the time and names of tracks, import it into the audio file and you've got tracks

Oh and the final step after all of this is done is to "export multiple" under the file menu.

[Gurm]

Sound... Forge.

I know, it's pricey. But it's like Audacity would be if there were real developers writing it!

[Helevitia]

Dude! You weren't kidding, $300! I'll stick with audacity.