Re: Batching "fileXXXX.mp3" + "addendum.mp3"... (where XXXX=0001 to 3000)

they call me frenchy wrote: 
Howdy wise r.a.p.ers,

A friend of mine has approx 3,000 mp3 files that he needs to add a
standard tag line onto the end of.  Obviously this needs to be a batch
process, but I cant think of a Wavelab or Soundforge process that
would do this offhand.  He already has soundforge7 for his work.


You can simply concatenate mp3 files and the result is playable.
I've just tried it here on my linux system:
$ cat song1.mp3 songs.mp3 >twosongs.mp3
....and played it back - seemed to work fine.

On a Windows command prompt or batch file, I think the equivalent would be
> copy file1.mp3+file2.mp3 >combined.mp3

How you handle the file names with the embedded numbers is another matter. Here I'd do it with a shell script and a bit of trial and error. On windows you might be able to do it as a batch file too but it would be very fiddly.

Any solution involving decoding and re-encoding the mp3 files is far slower and more complicated than necessary, and isn't likely to get any closer to solving the numbers-embedded-in-file-names problem.

This is a computing rather than an audio problem.

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