Free program to add silence on end of 100's of mp3s at once???

[stoney]

Does anyone know of some freeware that will batch process mp3 files in order to add a few seconds of silence to the end of each file???

[No_Use]

I haven't tried this myself but Reaper (I know not freeware, but you could use the fully functional trial) has a batch file converter with a "tail size" setting for FX.

If you use a dummy FX (eg a volume plugin set to 0db) and dial in a tail size I'd assume it fills the files with silence at the end.

[stoney]

Brilliant. Works perfectly. I didn't select any FX chain and it produced silence for my requested tail size.

Thank you!

[No_Use]

Nice !
You're welcome.

[Tricky-Loops]

You should make trainings for REAPER users, No-Use! I didn't even know that feature...

[No_Use]

Sure how much would you pay ?

Seriously, thanks but this guy does it probably better than me anyway

http://www.groove3.com/str/reaper-4-explained.html

[BertKoor]

Using DOS commands, this can be done without re-encoding your MP3's.

Try this:

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C:\> type example1.mp3 > result.mp3
C:\> type example2.mp3 >> result.mp3

You will get a new file result.mp3 which is the concatenation of both example1.mp3 and example2.mp3.

So you have to prepare a "silence.mp3" file, and find a way to concatenate that to all mp3's in a folder. Here's how I think that should be done:

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ren silence.mp3 silence.3pm
for %%i in (*.mp3) do type silence.3pm >> %%i
ren silence.3pm silence.mp3 

Put that code (with notepad) in a file called "silence.cmd".
Put a file called "silence.mp3" in the folder with mp3's.
run the silence.cmd script, and presto!