Can anyone recommend a decent, free, MP3 joiner? I want to create a single MP3 (30-40 mins. long) from maybe 10 individual MP3s.

Alternatively, can anyone recommend a (free!) utility that will create a DVD slideshow from around 400 JPGs with a soundtrack that plays a medley of songs, rather than just one song and then stops? I've been playing with DVDSlideshowGUI and it does an excellent (if slow) job of creating the video side, but the audio track plays just once. Even if it were possible to loop the one track, that would be acceptable, too.

Can anyone recommend a decent, free, MP3 joiner? I want to create a single MP3 (30-40 mins. long) from maybe 10 individual MP3s.

Alternatively, can anyone recommend a (free!) utility that will create a DVD slideshow from around 400 JPGs with a soundtrack that plays a medley of songs, rather than just one song and then stops? I've been playing with DVDSlideshowGUI and it does an excellent (if slow) job of creating the video side, but the audio track plays just once. Even if it were possible to loop the one track, that would be acceptable, too.

Have you tried Cool MP3 Splitter & Joiner 2.02 (http://www.yaosoft.com/)?

Yeah, I had a go with Cool Splitter but it just hung. Tried to join 10 MP3s and it seemed to end up in a tight CPU loop for an hour till I killed it.

Perhaps I should have tried the obvious! Winamp can create WAV output as one file from its playlist, and it only took a few seconds to produce the WAV file. Then just convert the WAV to MP3 :thumbsup:

Audacity (free from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) will join audio tracks together. It's a fantastic tool, and relatively easy, yet very powerful.

To work with MP3's, you'll need to get the LAME MP3 encoder (details on the Audacity website), but once that's been set up, you can save you edited-together tracks as new MP3 files.

You can do it easily in DOS using the Copy command eg...

Copy file1.mp3+file2.mp3+file3.mp3+file4.mp3 newfile.mp3

will concatenate files 1 to 4 into a file 'newfile.mp3'

:D

You can do it easily in DOS using the Copy command eg...

Copy file1.mp3+file2.mp3+file3.mp3+file4.mp3 newfile.mp3

will concatenate files 1 to 4 into a file 'newfile.mp3'

:D

Are you sure that works? :huh: Firstly, you would need to specify the /B flag, wouldn't you? And secondly, wouldn't it destroy the MP3 file structure? I assume it's something like (header + data + trailer) so the newfile.mp3 would stop after playing file1.mp3?

I have done it successfully....but a long while ago ;) ISTR if you have all the files ID3 tagged only the tag from the last file gets transferred to the new file.

I only posted it as a joke really :D

These days I use mp3DirectCut to join MP3 files...http://mpesch3.de1.cc/