M4ACUT(1)

✨ M4ACUT ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to m4acut — it's a manual page, it's a whole vibe, and it's here to teach you how to cut your M4A files without wrecking them 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

m4acut — cut M4A (AAC in MP4) files losslessly and gaplessly, no cap, fr fr 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

m4acut [OPTIONS] [FILE]

that's it. that's the whole entrance. main character energy only 😌

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So m4acut reads M4A files and extracts a portion of the audio into a new file. literally just vibes and slicing ✂️✨

When chapter mode is specified, it can automatically extract each chapter into files, setting the title tag and track tag from the chapter title/number. it's giving organized 🗂️💅

And here's the iconic part 👑: since m4acut takes priming / padding samples into account and writes the iTunSMPB tag properly, m4acut allows any cut point (not restricted to AAC frame boundaries) and the resulting files can be played gaplessly. no awkward silences, no clicks, just clean audio transitions 🧚‍♀️🫶

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -h, --help — shows command help. the "help me help you" option 🫶
• -v, --version — shows the version number. know your queen's birthday 🎂
• -o, --output — specify the output filename. Ignored when -c/-C is set. Otherwise it's required 👀 like, you gotta tell her where to put the file.
• -s, --start <[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ss..]|ns> — specify the cut start point in either time or number of samples. When it's not given, 0 is assumed 🍓

Example:

588s   588 samples

23.46  23.46 secs

15     15 secs

39:12  39m 12s

iykyk — 588s means samples here, not seconds, don't come for me, that's just what the page says 😭

• -e, --end <[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ss..]|ns> — specify the cut end point (exclusive). When it's not given, the end of the input is assumed. so she just keeps going till the file runs out 🌈
• -c, --chapter-mode — enables chapter mode. Splits automatically at each chapter point 💫
• -C, --cuesheet — specify cuesheet and split automatically at each track in it. track-by-track slay 📑✨
• --cuesheet-encoding — specify the character encoding name of the cuesheet. By default, UTF-8 is assumed 💜

⚠️ ok important bestie: -c, -C, and -s/-e are mutually exclusive and cannot be set at the same time. pick a lane, queen 💀 one mode at a time, periodt.

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

nu774 <honeycomb77@gmail.com>. the icon who made this happen 👑💖

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this was m4acut(1), from May, 2014 (yes she's an elder but she still ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨), and it's the very same M4ACUT(1) you came in with, just with way better energy 🎀🦋💅