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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> The input audio is a flac file  and I don't want to convert this into
> any lossy audio format to preserve as much as possible of the signal.
>
> Where can I get this program ?
>
> or
>
> How can I split an audio file at points of defineable 
> level of "silence" into several audio files in one go?
>
>
> Cheers!
> Meino
>

It doesn't look good.  Either it isn't available or no one who has it
installed uses pfl.  It finds this but I don't think it is what you want. 

http://www.portagefilelist.de/site/query/listPackageVersions/?category=net-irc&package=irssi&do#result

Mostly replying so that you can check out the pfl tool.  It helps
sometimes to find out where a command comes from.  It's handy at times. 

Dale

:-)  :-)

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