• Primer for splitting a long YouTube video (using CCR's Greatest Hits)

    From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 22 23:05:33 2023
    we are talking about splitting one long YouTube video into a
    collection of mp3s, one for each track/song in the YT video

    create an mp3 for this YouTube (many of CCR's Greatest Hits): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmY01aOTshI

    right-click on the mp3 file in your Windows folder and
    select 'Edit with Wavepad Sound Editor' (which you have installed
    - latest version is here: https://wavepad.en.softonic.com/download)

    create a list of the songs as sequenced in the YT video:
    (I used OCR on the static YT video and then manually
    corrected a few titles using https://www.discogs.com/master/942009-Creedence-Clearwater-Revival-CCR-Forever-36-Greatest-Hits
    and I later discovered there were three more songs at the end of the
    video, making 23 songs in all)

    01 - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
    02 - Fortunate Son
    03 - Bad Moon Rising
    04 - Proud Mary
    05 - Born On The Bayou
    06 - Up Around The Bend
    07 - Who'll Stop The Rain
    08 - Lookin' Out My Back Door
    09 - Run Through the Jungle
    10 - Suzie Q
    11 - Green River
    12 - Cotton Fields
    13 - The Midnight Special
    14 - I Put A Spell On You
    15 - Ramble Tamble
    16 - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
    17 - Hey Tonight
    18 - Sweet Hitch-Hiker
    19 - Long as I Can See the Light
    20 - Wrote A Song For Everyone
    21 - Someday Never Comes
    22 - Commotion
    23 - The Working Man

    click on Levels in top horizontal menu in Wavepad
    go to Normalize > Auto Normalize Settings
    set Method to Perceived Loudness (dBA) > OK
    go to Normalize > Auto Normalize

    click on Edit in top horizontal menu
    go to Split > Split at Silences
    set Silence duration (ms) to 400
    select Save to folder
    set Output format to .mp3
    edit Output location and Output name {a file prefix) to suit you
    click on blue Split button

    go to the Output location folder and delete the 10 very small
    sized mp3s {caused by the short Silence duration which was necessary
    because songs 17 and 18 are very close to each other}; anyway, you
    should be left with 23 new mp3s

    the last step is to rename each of the 23 mp3s with a song title;
    this can be done manually using the song title list above; or, like
    me, you can use a small free app named 'Extrabits' which has an
    option to 'Multi Rename' files by simply pasting a list of replacement
    names (and it can add a common prefix and a common suffix file type)

    my mp3s, produced from the one long YouTube video, look like this:

    CCR - 01 - Have You Ever Seen The Rain.mp3
    CCR - 02 - Fortunate Son.mp3
    CCR - 03 - Bad Moon Rising.mp3
    CCR - 04 - Proud Mary.mp3
    CCR - 05 - Born On The Bayou.mp3
    CCR - 06 - Up Around The Bend.mp3
    CCR - 07 - Who'll Stop The Rain.mp3
    CCR - 08 - Lookin' Out My Back Door.mp3
    CCR - 09 - Run Through the Jungle.mp3
    CCR - 10 - Suzie Q.mp3
    CCR - 11 - Green River.mp3
    CCR - 12 - Cotton Fields.mp3
    CCR - 13 - The Midnight Special.mp3
    CCR - 14 - I Put A Spell On You.mp3
    CCR - 15 - Ramble Tamble.mp3
    CCR - 16 - I Heard It Through The Grapevine.mp3
    CCR - 17 - Hey Tonight.mp3
    CCR - 18 - Sweet Hitch-Hiker.mp3
    CCR - 19 - Long as I Can See the Light.mp3
    CCR - 20 - Wrote A Song For Everyone.mp3
    CCR - 21 - Someday Never Comes.mp3
    CCR - 22 - Commotion.mp3
    CCR - 23 - The Working Man.mp3

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