How to merge/append/join wav segments/files into one?

Appending two or a few Wav files is easy with sound editors such as Audacity, Cool Edit and SoundForge. However, what if you need to join hundreds of files in different directories? Doing this manually is insane...

Recently I needed to do this with a bunch of records in Italian I wanted to put in my mp3-player. I found only a commercial solution, but I decided to code mine.

Todor's WaveAppender 0.01

Platform:Windows.License: Freeware.Warranty: No.

Download:Wave Appender 0.01

Please, post a comment if you find it useful.

Manual 

- Unzip files.
- Open scan.bat and edit the second string to point the path to the base folder with Wav files. E.g.:

scan.exe l:\italian\wave\1\ >list.txt

scan.exe your_full_path_here >list.txt

- Run scan.bat - it generates list.txt.
- Open list.txt and put on top a line pointing to the target directory. The merged files will be created there, e.g.:

l:\wav

l:\italian\wave\0\1b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\1i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\2b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\2i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\3b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\3i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\4b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\4i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\5b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\5i.wav

#
$


- Run append.bat
- Voila! Files from each folder will be merged in 1.wav (first folder in the list), 2.wav, ... N.wav.


Using only appWav.exe

You can edit the list file manually, then you don't need to run the scanner.
The syntax is:

First line - target path
Next - N lists of path to files to be merged in N.wav. A list ends with "#".
The file ends with "$".

Eg.:

l:\wav

l:\italian\wave\0\1b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\1i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\2b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\2i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\3b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\3i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\4b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\4i.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\5b.wav
l:\italian\wave\0\5i.wav

#
l:\italian\wave\2\1b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\1i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\2b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\2i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\3b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\3i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\4b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\4i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\5b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\5i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\6b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\6i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\7b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\7i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\8b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\8i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\9b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\9i.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\10b.wav
l:\italian\wave\2\10i.wav

#
$

Notes:

- Files in each merge group should have the same format, code is pretty simple yet.
- Files in one list can be from different folders.


Thanks

Thanks to Srinivas Varukala (basic code for scanning directories in C#) and Vasian Cepa (Numeric Sorter in C#) for the Scanner part; you can find their code in CodeProject.

Appender code is in C++, written by me.

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