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From: Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:28:48 +0000
Subject: Re: making wav sample of a big mp3
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote:

> I need to make a 15-second WAV sample from a 3-minute mp3 file that I have.
> Does anyone know an easy way to do this?

This is how I do it (improvements welcome!):

dd if=<input.mp3> of=tmp.mp3 count=X  [where X = 14.2 * number-of-seconds-desired]

mpg123 -s tmp.mp3 > tmp.raw 

sox -r44100 -s -w -c2 tmp.raw sample.wav