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Re: Adding Time-Stop Marks to Audio Tracks

Gene
 

I tried the Carlos program and I found that it not only allows you to create a time marker, but when you activate that time marker, it opens the file in Winamp and moves you to the time specified.  So you don't have to find and press enter on the file first or open Winamp.  You can just activate the time marker, which is very convenient because it saves all the other steps you might have to take otherwise. 
 
Also, if you want the installer to create a shortcut on the desktop, you have to check that option during installation. 
Also, you can create a shortcut key, not using the installer, but in the usual way.  I did so.  So all I have to do is execute the shortcut command and when the program opens, move to the time marker I want, then execute alt j, the shortcut command to jump to the time, using the time marker. 
 
And if you only have one time marker, that is automatically selected when you open the utility so all you have to do is execute the shortcut key and, when the utility opens use alt j.
 
Gene

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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2019 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Adding Time-Stop Marks to Audio Tracks

Sorry I didn't see this thread earlier . There is another option that works similarly to the idea of writing down the stop points in a text file, but this has the advantage that you can load the file into WinAmp and, having done that, you can jump forward and backwards as if they were separate tracks.

It's called a Cue sheet and is typically used where you have a single mp3 file, say of a band's full album, and you want to have WinAmp (or whatever music player) be able to identify the track length and title.

I can't remember now whether I had to install a WinAmp plugin to enable WinAmp to be able to pllay cue files (I've used them when necessary for years!), but you could give it a go and see if it works.

I have single mp3 files of Chopin's pianoe etudes Op10 and Op25 which contain 12 etudes in each mp3 file. I have both single mp3 files with their respective cue files saved in the same folder. If I open the cue file in WinAmp it plays the mp3 file as if each etude was a single file.

In the text below (which is the ..cue file) REM is just a remark / comnent. You can tell that the filename points to the mp3 file (saved in the same folder) and the INDEX is the time the particular song / section begins.

I don't know whether the spacing before PERFORMER and track titles are specific, but I would assume the block capital letters for PERFORMER, TITLE and FILE are required.

Not sure if this will do exactly what you're looking for, but it might be another option :)

Giles
What follows is the text of a plain text file called Chopin etudes Op25 (Geza Anda).cue:

REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb3"
PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
TITLE "Etudes Op25"
FILE "02. Etudes Op25_CD2.ape" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track01"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track02"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 02:39:33
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track03"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 04:13:70
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track04"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 06:05:08
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track05"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 07:43:36
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track06"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 11:12:29
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track07"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 13:27:73
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track08"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 18:45:18
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track09"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 19:58:58
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track10"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 21:06:26
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track11"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"

  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track12"
    PERFORMER "Geza Anda"
    INDEX 01 28:23:31

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