WANTED: MP3 cutter! (read :S)

JeLLyMaN_2

I personally use GoldWave (you might need the LAME codec, avail. from site for MP3's though). Gooooogle

yezdi

Goldwave's great. I've been using this for a long time and am very pleased with its features. However, if you want to record say a soundtrack from a movie then you are stuck. For this purpose I use total recorder. It can record from the soundcard in your computer. Anything that is outputted on the speakers will be recorded. So record using Total recorder and then edit using Goldwave. :T
You got your cool ringtones. Just like mine...I have the Star Trek theme tune as my ring tone. You cant get this anywhere. Thanks to TotalRecorder and GoldWave !:j

Interestingly http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ have a free software for today only that will record sound from the computer.

Robothell

Darksun wrote:

Technically yes, but I don't think he's going to be sued for making a clip of a song and putting it on his phone. Provided he owns a legal copy of the song, of course.

Just giving helpful advice.....we don't want to go admitting to or condoning that sort of behaviour ......not with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act floating about. As far as I'm aware, even if you download the track legally from an online seller there is ambiguity about what you are buying - the right to have the track or the right to the actual file. If it's only the file then you are legally not allowed to alter it (and that includes changing it to wav and sticking it on a CD).

I don't think that anyone would be sued for making a clip of a song for a mobile phone, but I personally wouldn't admit to it on chat forum. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but you would be too if they were all out to get you.....:p

Mr._AZ

Bamber19 wrote:

how do you remove the vocals, it would save me a lot of time, i use this program and a mix of other not so free ones and almost always re-record all parts.

It's a bit fiddly. Basically, you need to split the channels, so you have a left and right stereo split - open the track you want to remove them from, and click on the name with the arrow beside it. From the drop down list, select "Split Stereo Track". What you have now is both channels. What you need to do, is invert the second (bottom) channel - click around the area of the mute/solo button, then from the effects menu go down to invert. Go back to the drop down menu's beside each split, and set them to mono rather than right and left, then preview and, if you're lucky and the song is properly editable, the vocals will have been removed with very little distortion to the track

thegoon

i use mp3mymp3 which lets you record any sound source you want on the pc

Darksun

Robothell wrote:

Just giving helpful advice.....we don't want to go admitting to or condoning that sort of behaviour ......not with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act floating about. As far as I'm aware, even if you download the track legally from an online seller there is ambiguity about what you are buying - the right to have the track or the right to the actual file. If it's only the file then you are legally not allowed to alter it (and that includes changing it to wav and sticking it on a CD).

I think you're a little confused. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act is a piece of US legislation that mostly covers copy protection technologies and also stuff like ISP/provider protection (provided they comply with the regulations). The US have much better Fair Use laws than the UK anyway, so I really don't really see the relevance.

Robothell

Darksun wrote:

I think you're a little confused. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act is a piece of US legislation that mostly covers copy protection technologies and also stuff like ISP/provider protection (provided they comply with the regulations). The US have much better Fair Use laws than the UK anyway, so I really don't really see the relevance.

I agree, the DMCA is a piece of US legislation, there is also a European version called the European Union Copyright Directive.....essentially the same legislation slightly reworded (so as to avoid copyright infringement maybe?) and was incorporated into UK law in 2003......however, most people still refer to both documents as the DMCA regardless of where they hail from as it was the first of the bad bunch. Now, certainly the DMCA states that any altertion of a file is infringement of copyright and the general consensus is that the UK and EU one both imply this (for UK see Lawdit)

At the end of the day dude, all I was trying to do was pass on some advice on how to do this without incriminating anyone on a public chat forum (which is against the forum rules if I'm not mistaken). I'm not trying to say the person will be sued if he/she does it but it pays to be prudent. Let's not argue semantics, we're all buddies here:beer:

bballer012

hi

i had the same problem, my phone only has a certain anount of memory so i needed to have small songs to keep some memory free.

i discovered this website called https://www.download.com

when you arrive at the website, go to the search bar and type in mp3 to ringtone pro, and list of programs will appear and the one you need is published by a company called an ming.

it is completely free to download and use, and all it does is compresses the song that you want, without losing any parts of the song, this means that the song size is dramatically reduced in size to minimize memory usage.
the chosen song will sound exactly the same but be alot smaller

i really hope this helps

thankyou

bballer012

simate

Robothell wrote:

Hmmm.....I'm not sure if what you're talking about constitutes an infringement of copyright but there's a freeware package called wave pad that can certainly cut parts of, say, MP3s that you have made yourself or hold the copyright to.

Hope that is both ambiguous enough and helpful.

I've used Wavepad for a long time now, it's an excellent piece of free software. I make most of my own ring/message tones with it. You can do overlays and all sorts with it. 10/10.

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/

dickibobboy

Mr._AZ wrote:

Exactly what I use for that. Also good for removing vocals from songs, incase you want instrumentals.

I have never managed to do that in the program. Can it be done with all songs?

and i second audacity. What i allways use for mp3 recording and cutting etc..