Is there a way to cut a lossy audio file without re-encoding

Open it in notepad and delete the bytes that you don't want

>>61113268
how do you not know about Audacity by now?
I literally learned about my first hour of browsing /g/ many moons ago

>>61114816
*about it

>>61114816
>Audacity
since when does it cut
>without re-encoding
?

does ffmpeg with the -acopy (audio codec copy) not just cut without reencoding?
ive used ffmpeg to but some vids, which it does very fast, and doesnt affect quality on a simple ocular comparisson.. and being very fast suggests that no reencoding occured, of video stream at least, audio coding is so fast that i cant be really sure.

but im sure there are other specific cli tools for this

or just try running the same file cutting one sec in loop several times to see if a certain tool is indeed nor re encoding, after about a 1000 steps a differentce should be obvious

>>61113268

 pacman -Si mp3splt

Repository      : extra
Name            : mp3splt
Version         : 2.6.2-1
Description     : Commandline tool for splitting mp3 and ogg files without decoding
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None                                                                                                                                                 
Depends On      : libmp3splt
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 39,30 KiB
Installed Size  : 100,00 KiB
Packager        : Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
Build Date      : 26.11.2014 (cp) 15:23:52 EET
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Do note that you cannot control the precise time at which the split is made. It gets stuck to keyframes or something.

Alternatively you can use ffmpeg, specify your start and end times and use -c:a copy. You get the exact same effect.

Yes. Use ffmpeg. (and the -acopy option)

Audacity is pretty hard to use for cutting mp3s and using the command line I for cyber geeks with spreadsheets

I use mp3DirectCut, it's free and open sauce, and as it's just dedicated to cutting unwanted parts from MP3 files without all the other features of audacity it is much simpler to use for this task

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

>>61113268
ffmpeg can do that.
set the -c to copy.
Handbrake for GUI, as long as you set the encode to copy it will not do an re-encode.