Thanks unfortunately I am stuck on a windows box for the few weeks as my 
linux box is halfway across the country and shut off.  I guess I can 
just look into using some sort of cheap commercial sound software.
If anyone else knows of a solution I would love to know.

-Matthew


Aredridel wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 07:55 +0900, Matthew Margolis wrote:
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>>I am working with a band right now and they want samples of all their 
>>songs made so that they can post music on their site without giving 
>>everything away.  The samples should be about 20 seconds long and mp3 
>>files.  There are quite a few files that need to be sampled so I am 
>>looking for a fast and automated way to create files that are only 20 
>>seconds long.  Is there any ruby library that might be applicable to 
>>this challenge? 
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>I think there's a ruby-soundfile, but honestly, if you're on unix, I'd
>be shelling out to sox. I might use Ruby (or Rake!) to automate it, but
>I'd let `sox` do the dirty work.
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