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MP3 Butcher's scripts

Basics

Mp3 Butcher can use scripts to accelerate frequently repetitive activities. You can ie. split a big file into 74 minut pieces to order burn an audio CD's. Mp3 butcher's scripts are regular text files so they can be edited in notepad and later proccessed by the program. Scripts should have .rzs extention.


Example script

Example script is showed below.

[Source Files]

1:C:\test.mp3
2:C:\xyz.mp3
3:C:\example.mp3

[Destination Files]

1:test-cut.mp3:1:20:25,34
2:xyz-cut.mp3:2:3:33,23:3:45
3:example-cut.mp3:0:1500:1800

 

How it works?
It cuts 5,34 second piece from test.mp3 (from 20 second to 25,34 second) and save into testcut.mp3 file. Next the program will save xyz-cut.mp3. The file will be contained music from xyz.mp3 file (from 3 minute 33,23 second to 3 minute 45 second). Next from example.mp3 will be cut 300 frames (from 1500 to 1800) and be save into example-cut.mp3

You can produce scripts in notepad or directly in MP3 Butcher. The latter is useful when you want to see how look like butcher's project converted to .rzs file

Explanation
Scripts have two section [Source files] and [Destination Files]. The first enumerates source files. Numbers are separated from file paths by a colon. In [Destination Files] section these numbers are used to refer to appropriate source files. [Destination files] section enumarates files that you want to save. Here also is used colon to separate paramaters accordingly to below format:

Number_of_n_source_file:Destionation_file_name:Units:Start_time:End_time

Every line should be separated by enter. Units can be either 0 or 1 or 2. 1 means that start/end_time is pointed in seconds, 0 means frames and 2 means minutes. When you use minutes you need to pass start/end_time in hh:mm format.
Opposed to [Source files] section file names in [Destination file] section shouldn't contain full path to the file (only the file name). Appropriate destinatnion driectory you can set in preferences in MP3 Butcher before you open script. Destinatnion driectory is common to all files appearing in [Destination Files] section. To run your own scrit use open script option in menu file or associate extention .rzs of the script with the program.