Splitting a large mp3 / flac / ogg by detecting silence gaps

If you have a large audio file coming for instance from a whole music album, the excellent mp3splt can do this for you:

mp3splt -o @n-@f -s my_long_file.mp3

will autodetect the silences, and create a list of tracks based on the large file.

mp3splt is  available in the Debian / Ubuntu archive.