automaticaly split wav into seperate wavs removing silence between sounds

[Gone soft]

So, there's bound to be some software apt to do the simple task of splitting a sequence of seperate sounds in a wav into seperate wavs each numbered in rising order. As subject says throwing away the silence between the sounds. Preferably free (and legally so), and userfriendly (I've little experience with scripting etc).

I did a quick search here and couldn't find anything about preciesely this, no harm and offence meant if I ignored something I should have tried to find information allready available here.

Also apologies if I should have posted in a different forum, I'll remove and post elsewhere if so but this seemed correct to my simple mind at the time.

[clangorous]

I think the major DAWs all do this. I use Studio One and the function is called "Strip Silence."

[kvaca]

"Autosplit" in Wavelab

[telecode]

depends if you can do basic coding.

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ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -af silenceremove=1:0:-50dB output.mp3

you should probably be able to a foreach loop and rename each time it splits. ffmpeg is cool tool and free.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/256 ... io-silence

[DSmolken]

Reaper seems quite popular, you can probably find tutorials and scripts for autonaming the files as well.

[sinkmusic]

Reaper : dynamic split.

[enroe]

Every DAW can do this.

If you don't want to engage a DAW you can use a simple audio editor
for it. There are "audacity" or "wavosaur" or "waveshop" (just google
for them!)

[Gone soft]

Thanks to everyone trying to help.

I use Reaper as my DAW but I struggle to do editing that gives me separate wav files to use elsewhere. Also there's the issue with Reaper by default adding a little fade in and out that would ruin the files. I'll see if I can make it work using Dynamic split and changing settings, and that may be useful for other stuff later down the line anyway.

I use Wavosaur quite often and while I can split things I haven't figured how to export those splits as separate wav files.

Audicity allowed me to make separate wav files that were split at the correct starting point, but the silence after remained. So that required further batch processing with Wavosaur to get the job done. Might be some easy way to get it all done in one go in Audacity (or Wavosaur), tips appreciated. Just claiming that it's possible isn't of much help as I've tried and tried and can't fiugure out excactly how, and I never really clicked with Audacity. Anyone got the knowhow and patience to sponfeed me through this if there's a more effective way doing it all in one editor?

[sinkmusic]

Reaper's dynamic split doesn't create fade in/outs afaik.
Also, I think you can disable automatic item fades in the preferences.