Song Length

[olingerjccj]

Does anyone know a good song editor to trim down my songs?

Thanks
John

[Drodriguez]

I've used the free Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

[ctmal]

I second Audacity.

[g2ktcf]

and a third

[djulien]

WinFF/ffmpeg will also do that (as well as converting formats), but it uses command-line parameters, so the visual interface of Audacity is nicer.

don

[51fordf2]

Another vote for Audacity...I ended up using Audacity for everything, from "normalizing" all my songs (making the volumes "even"), to mixing, and I'm working on voice-overs right now. it has enough effects available to make most happy, and I haven't decided whether to do Rudolf (increase just the pitch, leave the tempo alone), or Hammond the Hamster (speed AND tempo altered, sounding like the Chipmunks). Lot's of fun!! Just don't get so absorbed in playing with the music, and voice-overs, that you forget about sequencing!!

Off to do more voice-overs....

:)

Roger

[rstehle]

Another vote for Audactity, it rocks for ripping and editing, etc.
Now for normalizing, here is a link to an application called MP3Gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php). You load all of your MP3's in to it, and it will equalize them all to play at exactly the same level........ just like on a real radio station..........8-)

[51fordf2]

I also have MP3Gain, and I was not happy with it. It worked ok, on the first time a song was normalized, but if you mixed in another song, then normalized that to yet another song, things started to get very garbled. don't think it was my computer, but the software...I feel I have a lot more control over Audacity, at least when mixing multiple mixes. Lost a LOT of time, since I hadn't picked up on it, until I had quite a few songs and mixes done.

R


Another vote for Audactity, it rocks for ripping and editing, etc.
Now for normalizing, here is a link to an application called MP3Gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php). You load all of your MP3's in to it, and it will equalize them all to play at exactly the same level........ just like on a real radio station..........8-)

[rstehle]

I have used MP3Gain multiple times on the same set of songs, and it has performed perfectly. The great thing about MP3Gain is that you can load all your songs (and voiceovers) and normalize them all to the same level at the same time. I really like it a lot. YMMV...............

[dirknerkle]

I also have MP3Gain, and I was not happy with it. It worked ok, on the first time a song was normalized, but if you mixed in another song, then normalized that to yet another song, things started to get very garbled. don't think it was my computer, but the software...I feel I have a lot more control over Audacity, at least when mixing multiple mixes. Lost a LOT of time, since I hadn't picked up on it, until I had quite a few songs and mixes done.

R

I discovered the same thing. The problem is that the wave form gets modified too many times and it loses certain nuances that make it sparkle.

I've had good luck with MP3Gain by using it only once. After picking out the music and copying the originals to a working folder, running MP3Gain on the working copies, then copying them to Vixen's audio folder works well. You always have the originals, and if any cuts are made, you have to do all the songs again instead of only one -- copy all the originals to a working folder again, etc...:-|

[Macrosill]

Audacity here too. I just used it b4 to rip Britney's new song, 3, from youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_UVCjhmI8