[OsX] Joining multiple mp3 tracks

[bwana]

Does anyone know of a simple way to join multiple mp3 tracks together?

I've tried the cat command from the terminal but my 30mb worth of files bloats to 22gb!

 

[GreGorGy]

How'd you cat? I did the following (LS for file sizes):

$ ls -laF
total 27128
drwxr-xr-x 4 gregorgy staff 136 Mar 28 2009 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 gregorgy staff 102 Mar 28 2009 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 gregorgy staff 6333229 Jul 1 2009 Making Plans For Nigel.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 gregorgy staff 7550124 Jul 1 2009 The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhe.mp3

$ cat * > ~/Desktop/xtc.mp3
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ ls -laF x*
-rw-r--r-- 1 gregorgy staff 13883353 Aug 16 12:50 xtc.mp3

 

[bwana]

I just did a cat * > trackname.mp3

 

[GreGorGy]

I just did a cat * > trackname.mp3

Eeek - I left that > out of my original. Fixed. Google recursion - it's fun. That's why I took a different destination to the source.

 

[bwana]

Eeek - I left that > out of my original. Fixed. Google recursion - it's fun. That's why I took a different destination to the source.

Haven't had time to google but I can guess what's happening. A never ending loop? That mp3 file just kept growing until I killed the terminal.

 

[zippy]

Haven't had time to google but I can guess what's happening. A never ending loop? That mp3 file just kept growing until I killed the terminal.

Rather ls the list to a file first, then loop through the file to cat each file in the list file.

 

[bwana]

Rather ls the list to a file first, then loop through the file to cat each file in the list file.

Its a bit too complicated for my simple mind. What I did manage to do is save the joined mp3 to a different directory and that seemed to do the trick.

Bloody quickly too if you'll excuse my language.