[geeks] favorite mp3 splitter/joiner/editor?

[Sandwich Maker]

anyone have a suggestion?

i've just ripped an audiobook, 12 cds unabridged.  thanks to itunes, i
can join tracks to make one mp3 per chapter - mostly; you can't join
tracks across discs, so i wind up with part 1 / part 2 for some
chapters.  but that's a minor annoyance; this is the first audiobook
where they end and begin chapters in the middle of a track, and that's
really bothersome when i'm trying to organize by chapter.

my budget closely approximates $0.  my platform is xp, with osx 10.3
possible.  an editor that works at the mp3 frame level is fine; i
don't need to monkey with the audio, just split and join files.

after several days of searching i've found a raft of possibles, but i
haven't found one yet that handles id3v2 tags.  i like mp3directcut
except for that.  visual mp3 splitter ran second, but another also-ran
had one feature i liked - counting frames, instead of time.  it gave
me warm fuzzies, though they all say they work on frame boundaries.

i could go round robin hood's barn and use mp3tags to translate
itunes' v2 tags to v1 then back to v2 after snipping, but information
is lost.
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