This is a quick tutorial on merging mp3 files together. Like many seemingly trivial computing tasks that one would imagine are easy to perform in the year 2021 this is remarkably not easy to do. This is the fastest route I discovered and I hope it's helpful.
Requirements
1. Brew
2. MacOS
Steps
Open terminal or iTerm and run brew install -v mp3wrap id3lib ffmpeg to install all the required packages
Run mp3wrap temp.mp3 combinedme1.mp3 combineme2.mp3 ... (... can include as many mp3 files as you need to combine)
Next run ffmpeg to copy the mp3s together into a …
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