Appendix A cut points

cut points are used to specify point in a sound file. they can also be used to speciy a size or a time duration using the beginning of the file as start reference. a cut point has the following form:

value[format]

in all cases, a positive integer value is required. the wav tools treat this number as a number of samples, whereas the mp3 tools treat this number as a number of frames. since most of the times is hard to specify a point (or size, or duration) in a file in terms of samples or frames, some modifiers are accepted. these modifiers consist in a single letter that must be written behind the number without leaving any blank.

A.1 cut points modifiers

these are the valid modifiers and how they modify the interpretation of value:

j

milliseconds

s

seconds

m

minutes

b

bytes

k

kbytes (1024 bytes)

M

megabytes (1024 kbytes)

in either case, the given values will be rounded to an integer number of samples/frames.