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[Rachel]

Thanks, saga! However, I noticed that the program you mentioned creates very large MP3s. I tested XMPlay and your mp3DirectCut: Although you said that the file is not encoded twice, I noticed that in a 4-minute clip XMPlay created (from minute 2 until the end) 3 MB file, and mp3DirectCut created 5 MB file. 

[saga]

That means that XMPlay is encoding the file at a lower bitrate than the original. mp3DirectCut makes an exact copy of the original file with exactly the same quality as the original - With the settings you apparently chose, XMPlay produces a lower-quality version of the same file.

[Rachel]

I have been experimenting for a couple of days and, indeed, the bitrate is the same! Can XMPlay do that too or not? (I have not changed the factory settings.) A side question, saga: Is there a program that can manipulate video clips as easy and efficiently as mp3DirectCut can service audio files?

[saga]

XMPlay cannot do it the same way as mp3DirectCut does, no. mp3DirectCut was specifically made to losslessly cut MP3 files, and as a result it can only do very basic operations on the audio data - XMPlay can do a lot more, and thus does not provide a "special case" for exact lossless MP3 cutting. But I'm sure you will get used to mp3DirectCut very quickly and will learn to use it at speed of light!

For video, you can try AviDemux - if you use the "copy" option for audio and video streams, it will try to not re-encode the video and audio data, similarly to what mp3DirectCut does.

[Rachel]

I am so grateful to you, saga, for these programs! I still have not figured out if it's possible to inject subtitles into video using AviDemux (I could not find that within the interface), otherwise everything is great! You are so wise...

[yaurthek]

Hello everyone, it's been a while!

Just to let you know, my plugin "XMPlay Sharp Scrobbler" is now available from the XMPlay support site! http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=683

(It's an updated version, which no longer requires the visual c++ redistributable package to be installed. It also features a few bug fixes...)

Cheers!

Melvyn.