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I am trying to join multiple audio files in ffmpeg. I am using the following command:

 ffmpeg -f concat -i myfile.txt -c copy output.mp3

Where myfile.txt contains audio file paths. I am able to join the mp3 audio, but is it possible to join together audio of another format (like avi, wav, m4a, etc.)?

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  • From the concat demuxer documentation: "All input files must have the same streams (same codecs, same time base, etc)."
    – llogan
    Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 16:01
  • @Amit Chandra- you possibly mean "join" not "merge"? Join would put them one after another. Merge would "mix" streams together. What exactly do you want to achieve?
    – Rajib
    Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 15:51
  • @Rajib I want to join audios. How can i achieve that??
    – Amit Chandra
    Commented Sep 12, 2014 at 6:30
  • As explained by @LordNeckbeard you will have to transcode and use the concat filter rather than the demuxer if your inputs have different codecs.
    – Rajib
    Commented Sep 12, 2014 at 18:10

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Use this: 

ffmpeg -i input1.wav -i input2.mp3 -i input3.aac -filter_complex 'concat=n=3:v=0:a=1[a]' -map '[a]' <encoding options> output.mp3

Here we are outputting to mp3 from 3 different audio codec inputs. You will have to input the mp3 encoding parameters. I'm assuming your input files are audio only.

Good parameters for mp3 might 256 kbps. Then use this:

-codec:a libmp3lame -b:a 256k

But this is considered wasteful for mp3 and you might want to use instead: -q:a 3

See this and also this.

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