How do I edit a sound recording?

georgiac

Hi.

My kids love playing beat the intro style games. I used to make them on a tape recorder by just recording the first 10 seconds of a song.

I have loads of MP3's on my computer that I know how to burn onto a disc but I have no idea how to edit them down into little segments.

Does anyone have any idea how to do it and what software ( preferably freeware) I would need. I have Nero 6 etc.

Thanks.

albertross_2

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.yaosoft.com/

dickibobboy

audacity i use, very easy to use aswell, or another good one i used to use was goldwave which is even easier, but i like audacity for saving streaming music and radio aswell

espresso

I believe that Audacity is the usually recommended program, as it's free!

Quincy_3

albertross wrote:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Darn beat me to it

To save as mp3 you will need the lame_enc.dll file.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3

georgiac

Wow .. 4 replies within 2 minutes of each other. This place is amazing. It's like a visit to the watercooler, as the Americans would say, with specialists in most fields.

In the past I would possibly have written in to a magazines help page and waited 2 months for a reply but now the response time is less than 5 minutes with numerous suggestions.

Thanks again.

horsenailbucket

Ipods have a built in music game - had a look at that?

keithsav

Hi,

Audacity is very good - but mp3directcut is also good for editing mp3 files.

It can be freely downloaded from :-

http://www.mpesch3.de/

HTH,


Keith

Alltheloginsaretakenappar

I use CDWave for editing wav files as it's really, really easy to use. For mp3s I convert to wav first with MKWAct because it's also really easy. Both are free.

georgiac

Thanks Keith, but shouldn't you be too busy looking for a new Manager than to post here! Any relation to the legendery Andy Sav?!