Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

[gentoo@dhaller.de (David Haller)]

Hello,

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
>I want to split an audio file containing crow calls at points
>where no crow call is. The "silence" in between is not exactly
>"silence" but some low level noise.
>
>Searching the internet for "split audio at silence" and similiar
>gives me this link
>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/318164/sox-split-audio-on-silence-but-keep-silence
>
>which uses a program called "silence" to detect the silence.
>
>Unfortunately I can't figure out, what package contains that program
>or from where I can download that program.

You need 'media-sound/sox' and then use the silence effect. Note that
it is _one_ command on _one_line in that answer on stackexchange

sox -V3 audiobook.mp3 audiobook_part_.mp3 silence \
    1 0.5 0.1% 1 0.5 0.1% : newfile : restart

See 'man 7 soxeffect'

HTH,
-dnh

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