Joining MP3 files losslessly

Question

I have a bunch of MP3 files and I have their paths grouped in a text file. Is it possible to join the relevant MP3 files based on the paths in the text file?

Answer 1

One possible approach would be to use cat:

$ cat example1 example 2 > output

or

$ cat example* > output

This will join any two files together - not sure what it will do to the ID3 metadata though.

Answer 2

I personally liked mp3wrap because it is more powerful and the size of the final file is three times less then the file merged with cat command.

Answer 3

There are at least a couple of tool: mpgtx and quelcom.

You can see their descriptions through any package manager, for example:

apt-cache show mpgtx quelcom