Hello,

I don't know if I'm being really stupid or not so bear with me.

I want to be able to chop up a long mp3 into smaller chunks and then save these individual chunks as mp3s WITHOUT the file being encoded again as an mp3 as quality will drop as the file has been downgraded to mp3 twice.. Make sense? No? I'll explain a bit more.

Say I have an hour long mp3 of a live set. I want to break the set up into the individual tracks. At the moment, I could use a cue file, burn to cd but if I import back into my cpu, the file is encoded again to mp3, no good.

I could use Audacity to cut the set up. But again, I then have to export each individual track as an mp3 so once again its being encoded twice.

Hopefully by now you get what I mean. Is there a program to cut mp3's up into smaller mp3's without any re-encoding taking place. Essentially, a way of just saving the cut up chunks as they are?

Or is this an incredibly easy thing to do and I just never realised?

Thanks

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