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I need to add over 100 files together. (self.Blind)
submitted by bradley22
I have silence of the lambs and other stories by the same author but they're broken up into small audio files.

What windows program can I use to join them all together successfully?
Fridux 1 points 2y ago
You can also use $1, which is a free and open-source command line tool for manipulating audio. Since you just want to concatenate the files you can do so by passing all of them as command line arguments, with the last argument being the destination file. The problem is that, if you're using cmd as a shell, you'll have issues enumerating all those files since cmd doesn't do wildcard expansion like unix shells do. This limitation can probably worked around using a batch script or similar, but since I don't have access to Windows I cannot help with that.
bradley22 [OP] 0 points 2y ago
Thanks but I don’t think command line is the way to go for me.
retrolental_morose 1 points 2y ago
if they're MP3, just use a binary copy in a command prompt:
copy /b file1.mp3 + file2.mp3 ... output.mp3.
mp3 files can just merge if they share samplerate etc.
Prefect316 2 points 2y ago
I've never thought about doing this and it would save so much time. Thanks!
bradley22 [OP] 0 points 2y ago
There’s over 100 files, that would be so much typing and one mistake would mess up the entire thing.
retrolental_morose 1 points 2y ago
but you can use wildcards.
to merge all files in the current folder to big.mp3 you'd type copy /b *.mp3 big.mp3.

No need to type out every file.

If the ordering is wrong, a tool like mp3tag can help restructure the files.
bradley22 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thanks but it didn't work, the first folder was fine but the second one only coppied one file.

It's ok, I'll keep the files as they are for now and if I need to do something in the future, i'll figure it out.
bradley22 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thanks.
BenandGracie 1 points 2y ago
Are they text or audio files? If they are text, you can just combine them by pasting each one in to a new file. I have never had to combine audio files, so I can't help you there.
bradley22 [OP] 0 points 2y ago
They’re audio.
BenandGracie 1 points 2y ago
I didn't see that in the original post. Sorry about that.
bradley22 [OP] 0 points 2y ago
That’s fine. I edited it in.
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