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i think quite a few people, myself included, are looking for a clean and lossless method to trim excess silence from only the beginning and end of an audio file, particularly music files, leaving a set amount of silence
while this is possible with ffmpeg and ffprobe, the process involves decoding the audio, reversing it, and decoding again so it's all quite slow
i found this on stack and modified it a bit to make a (sorta) working example, but i see this solution as a very dirty way to accomplish the task, however it is the only thing i was able to hack together after a LOT of searching and reading over the course of several days
#!/bin/bash
#rm -r OUTPUT 2>/dev/null
#rm -r LOSSLESS 2>/dev/null
#rm -r TEMP 2>/dev/null
mkdir TEMP
mkdir OUTPUT
mkdir LOSSLESS
ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -loglevel warning -y -i test.mp3 -vn -af silenceremove=1:0:-70dB TEMP/begincut.mp3
ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -loglevel warning -y -i TEMP/begincut.mp3 -vn -af areverse TEMP/reversed.mp3
ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -loglevel warning -y -i TEMP/reversed.mp3 -vn -af silenceremove=1:0:-70dB TEMP/revcut.mp3
ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -loglevel warning -y -i TEMP/revcut.mp3 -vn -af areverse TEMP/finished.mp3
cp "TEMP/finished.mp3" "OUTPUT/test.mp3"
ORGLENG=$( ffprobe -v warning -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 test.mp3 )
BEGINCT=$( ffprobe -v warning -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 TEMP/begincut.mp3 )
FINLENG=$( ffprobe -v warning -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 TEMP/finished.mp3 )
STARTSILENCE=$( echo "${ORGLENG} ${BEGINCT}" | awk '{printf $1 - $2}' )
ENDSILENCE=$( echo "${BEGINCT} ${FINLENG}" | awk '{printf $1 - $2}' )
echo "ORGLENG=${ORGLENG}"
echo "BEGINCT=${BEGINCT}"
echo "FINLENG=${FINLENG}"
echo "STARTSILENCE=${STARTSILENCE}"
echo "ENDSILENCE=${ENDSILENCE}"
echo "${STARTSILENCE}" | grep -q 'e' && STARTSILENCE="0.0"
# extract framelength in seconds
OFFSET=$( ffprobe test.mp3 -show_frames 2>/dev/null | grep pkt_duration_time | head -n1 | awk -F= '{print $2}' )
# distract frame rate to make sure it is cut in the silence
STARTSILENCE=$( echo "${STARTSILENCE} ${OFFSET}" | awk '{printf $1 - $2}' )
# if it is negative, make it 0
echo "${STARTSILENCE}" | grep -q '-' && STARTSILENCE="0.0"
# add the distracted size to the length
FINLENG=$( echo "${FINLENG} ${OFFSET}" | awk '{printf $1 + $2}' )
echo "test.mp3 = ${ORGLENG} seconds with ${STARTSILENCE}s silence at start and ${ENDSILENCE}s at end. Result is ${FINLENG}s"
echo "Offset = ${OFFSET}"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostdin -loglevel warning -y -i test.mp3 -ss ${STARTSILENCE} -t ${FINLENG} -vn -c:a copy LOSSLESS/test.mp3note that -nostdin seems to be required else funny things seem to happen happen, like chopping off a portion of the audio that contains detectable audio
trivial considering this request, but the script also causes an error when i open the file in Kwave (similar to Audacity):
An error occurred while decoding the file:
'File contains invalid data',
at position 1,044.
related: #367
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