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Title: Music editing freeware?
Post by: thedarkprince on Friday, September 9, 2011, 19:57:28
Anyone know of any freeware music editing software?  Don't want to do anything fancy just fade and cut a few tracks. 


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:02:54
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: thedarkprince on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:04:04
Ben, that was the first entry on Google... have you actually used it ?


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: Arch Stanton on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:07:54
Audacity is pretty good, the only downside is that you can't save the edited file as .mp3 - only .wav. You can on the full paid up version though.

So I use Super (erightsoft) to convert.



Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:10:06
Ben, that was the first entry on Google... have you actually used it ?

Yeah. Not for a while, but used too a lot.

It's pretty much the standard free open source one. Or was.

I'm sure it used to be able to do mp3's too, has that changed?


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: Arch Stanton on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:14:09
Last time I used it you could import mp3's to edit, but not save the edited version back as an mp3, only as a wav file - if that makes sense!


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:16:12
Last time I used it you could import mp3's to edit, but not save the edited version back as an mp3, only as a wav file - if that makes sense!

I just downloaded the most recent version. All you need is the lame encoder dll, when you try and export as an mp3 it actually gives you a download link.

I don't think there is a paid version of Audacity is there? It's all completely free.

Download the latest beta version - although if you're on windows 7 you have to anyway.


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: thedarkprince on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:16:22
Yeah there's a mp3 encoder plug-in so that must be right.  Will give it a bash though, thanks chaps.


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:20:57
Still works all brilliantly

[url width=200 height=59]http://tindeck.com/image/zhus/stats.png (http://tindeck.com/listen/zhus)[/url]


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: thedarkprince on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:22:46
La-la-la-la-la-laaaa. 


Nice.


Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: Arch Stanton on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:24:36
I see, good to know.  I was bracing myself for profanity with that clip!



Title: Re: Music editing freeware?
Post by: flammableBen on Friday, September 9, 2011, 20:32:56
This has restarted my interest in recording my ode to bacon.