Editing Audio Files

[David Brent]

Does anyone know of a website where one can edit Audio Files ie music, radio programs ect..?



For instance the shortening/deleting of sections of an MP3 music/comedy/radio file?



Cheers



Dave.

[sippog]

There are so many free programs you can download that will do this job - why would you want to do it online?

[Gazza]

Try this Dave:



Audacity



You'll also need to download this file to allow it to export as MP3:



Lame MP3 encoder



It's completely safe and well known - and relatively easy to use. It had one or two issues with Vista - I've just downloaded the latest Beta version but haven't tried it yet.

[David Brent]

name='Gazza']Try this Dave:



Audacity



You'll also need to download this file to allow it to export as MP3:



Lame MP3 encoder



It's completely safe and well known - and relatively easy to use. It had one or two issues with Vista - I've just downloaded the latest Beta version but haven't tried it yet.

Cheers Gazza,



I will try those out.

Being an IT dummy I need a system that is nice and simple and comes with clear instructions.

I've looked at a couple of sound editors in the past but they were really too complicated for me.

I was looking for some recommendations from fellow members who have already downloaded editing systems that are fairly easy to use.



Many thanks



Dave.

[Gazza]

Happy for you to pm me if you need help. what operating system do you have?

[Andy H]

I use 'Music Clean' by XOOM. I think is was about £20 a few years ago and it does everything I need - editing, cleaning, speeding/slowing down and it will export 128k MP3 without LAME as long as you have WMPlayer 9 or later. Runs fine on XP.

[amina]

I have tried alot of the software packages including Dart Pro and the most expensive DC Forensics software and found that the best is Magix Audio Cleaning Lab as it is the most straight forward and I like your self need software that shortened and deleted sections and allow it put in track breaks on unbridged audio.

[David Brent]

Many thanks for your recommendations Amina and Andy.

I'll check them out.



Thanks again for your kind offer Gazza.



Dave.

[HIPPIEDAVE]

cool mp3 splitter is very good for editing sound files and easy

[luthien]

A free goodie on the net is 'Mega Mp3Splitter' which does what it says on the tin! I often get radio recordings that need the news or the shipping forecast removing from the start/finish and this tool is ideal. When 'trimmed' so long as you save your 'new' mp3 with a slightly different title, your original is still intact, in case you screwed up or need to change anything!

[Edward G]

Howdy,

Can a radiohead please help me here?

I often want to record radio programs from the internet but the "listen again" facility fails me, as the internet connection sometimes breaks up mid-broadcast. The solution is to download the .ra file and convert it to wav or MP3 but although I follow the guide below and can get to stage 5 fine (ie. the dialogue box offers to save or open the file) I do not know what file type I should save it as (what does the writer mean by "any text file"?)and how to access this file so I can covert it to MP3!

Can anyone please advise as there are some goodies on the radio I would love to listen to....



Any help is greatly appreciated!!!



Thanks,



Edward G.



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I think this'll do it for you (at least, on a PC running some sort of Windows):



1) Open the BBC Radio Player and choose your programme



2) View the source of the left-hand frame (the one holding the player itself). [Right-click on the frame and choose "View source" from the menu]



3) Search for the string ".rpm", then copy the entire URL this finds. [e.g. "/radio/aod/shows/rpms/6music/6mix.rpm" from the page I'm looking at - there are others on the page, but basically find the one that looks like the show you're looking for.]



4) Paste this string into the address bar of Internet Explorer, remembering to add "www.bbc.co.uk" to the front if it's not already there.



5) You should be presented with a dialog box asking you to Save or Open the target: go for "Save". [NB this is why you should use IE in step 4, rather than e.g. Mozilla - Moz, I think, will always try to open the resultant file.]



6) Open the file you've just saved in a text editor, et voila!



There's your .ra file.

[lordtednfs]

name='Edward G']Howdy,

Can a radiohead please help me here?

I often want to record radio programs from the internet but the "listen again" facility fails me, as the internet connection sometimes breaks up mid-broadcast. The solution is to download the .ra file and convert it to wav or MP3 but although I follow the guide below and can get to stage 5 fine (ie. the dialogue box offers to save or open the file) I do not know what file type I should save it as (what does the writer mean by "any text file"?)and how to access this file so I can covert it to MP3!

Can anyone please advise as there are some goodies on the radio I would love to listen to....



Any help is greatly appreciated!!!



Thanks,



Edward G.

Hi Edward, long time no hear, how's the craic.



I think all listen again progs are in mp3 format anyway. If not you can use Windows Media Player 11 to convert to mp3 for you or to wav to mp3. It's that difficult to do.



Try using Freecorder as it'll record anything you throw in front of it and will record in mp3 if you use the settings on the Freecorder toolbar.



Best wishes to the family



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[Edward G]

Howdy Lord Ted,

Great to hear from you! Thanks for the reply.

My problem isn't recording from internet radio in real time. It's that because of signal failures/ line breakdown etc. I cannot get a continuous recording. I want to access the file itself and capture the source file and then convert that to MP3 etc.

I can identify the .rp file and it offers "save file" or "open file" but at that stage I cannot download the file as a music file. It just appears to be a small text file.

Any ideas?

Best regards and family fine thanks!

name='lordtednfs']Hi Edward, long time no hear, how's the craic.



I think all listen again progs are in mp3 format anyway. If not you can use Windows Media Player 11 to convert to mp3 for you or to wav to mp3. It's that difficult to do.



Try using Freecorder as it'll record anything you throw in front of it and will record in mp3 if you use the settings on the Freecorder toolbar.



Best wishes to the family



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[lordtednfs]

name='Edward G']Howdy Lord Ted,

Great to hear from you! Thanks for the reply.

My problem isn't recording from internet radio in real time. It's that because of signal failures/ line breakdown etc. I cannot get a continuous recording.

Hi Edward, I think that's your problem with the signal loss, because all you will then get is the text info that accompanies some/most downloads.



Contact your service provider and explain what's happening but first check out the software you're using to download/record your shows, maybe there's an error during installation that's causing your signal problems. Uninstall and then re-install it and then try again to record something and see how it goes.



It could also be that your software you are using is not compatable with your pc's software system. Try to use something different like Freecorder.



You may have a virus of some kind that sometimes blocks your recordings, try scanning your pc for a virus/spyware/adware ect.



If you are not getting a loss of signal at other times when you're not recording one of your shows, the chances are that it's one of the above.



All the best and hopefully this will be of some help to you.



Eddie



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[Edward G]

Cheers Lord Ted,

I will let you know how I get on.

name='lordtednfs']Hi Edward, I think that's your problem with the signal loss, because all you will then get is the text info that accompanies some/most downloads.



Contact your service provider and explain what's happening but first check out the software you're using to download/record your shows, maybe there's an error during installation that's causing your signal problems. Uninstall and then re-install it and then try again to record something and see how it goes.



It could also be that your software you are using is not compatable with your pc's software system. Try to use something different like Freecorder.



You may have a virus of some kind that sometimes blocks your recordings, try scanning your pc for a virus/spyware/adware ect.



If you are not getting a loss of signal at other times when you're not recording one of your shows, the chances are that it's one of the above.



All the best and hopefully this will be of some help to you.



Eddie



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