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I’ve been looking for a quick and cheap way to join multiple mp3s together for an upcoming article. There are a few freeware or shareware applications, but I figured there’s something already on my computer I’m not using. Unfortunately this tip leaves Windows users out in the cold, I haven’t forgotten about you! For files 1.mp3 and 2.mp3 that you’d like to join into a single large file called 3.mp3 on a Mac open up the Terminal; Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, on Linux/Unix variants I’m just going to assume you know where to find a shell. In your open terminal or console type in cat 1.mp3 2.mp3 > 3.mp3. This of course doesn’t limit you to just two files, for joining all the files in a directory you could type cat *.mp3 > oneReallyLongUsherFile.mp3. You can even append to a currently existing file, continuing with our first example type cat 4.mp3 >> 3.mp3.