Editing Music

......how?

[kodaks]

I want to take out a part of a song. I am wondering what kind of software can do this. Thanks!

[bill]

You would have to tell us what type of file or source you're talking about. There are all sorts of music editing and mixing packages out there.

[kodaks]

Usually it would be a Windows Medio Player Format file, but I also sometimes want to edit an iTunes file. Thanks!

[bcolflesh]

Audacity (free):

[sourceforge.net...]

[kodaks]

Thanks, I'll look into it.

[stef25]

audicity is another great open source solution. no need to mess around with demos or spend money

if you must, check out cooledit or soundforge

[Leosghost]

agreed Audacity will probably do what you want ..if you want to spend money you can also try out Acid Pro or Fruity loops..

[snowman]

On the Mac (System 9) there are a few programs I use.

The sound editing program I like to use is a bit of shareware called "Sound Sculptor II". It includes a number of effects and editing options, including filters, pitch shift, reverb, echo, graphical editing, crossfades. $30.

It handles the following formats:

AIFF: 8 or 16 bit with 1 to 8 tracks non-compressed.
System 7: 8 or 16 bit with 1 or 2 tracks non-compressed.
WAVE (RIFF): 8 or 16 bit with 1 to 8 tracks non-compressed.
Sound Designer II: 8 or 16 bit with 1 to 8 tracks non-compressed.
Sound Edit: 8 bit with 1 or 2 tracks non-compressed.

It won't edit MP3s. For that I use either Quicktime or a nifty little freeware program called "SoundApp PPC".

This program can convert to and from the following formats:

• SoundCap (including Huffman-compressed) and Studio Session Instruments
• SoundEdit (including stereo, MACE-3 and MACE-6),
• AIFF and AIFF-C (8-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit, MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1, µ-law and QuickTime codecs),
• System 7 sound and 'snd ' resource (including MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1 and µ-law),
• QuickTime MooV (soundtracks only, including MIDI movies),
• Sun Audio .au and NeXT .snd (including µ-law, a-law, 8-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit linear, 32- and 64-bit floating point, G.721 ADPCM and G.723 ADPCM),
• Windows WAVE (including GSM-, IMA- and MS ADPCM-compressed, µ-law and a-law, 8-, 16- and 32-bit linear),
• MPEG audio (layers I, II and III, requires a PowerPC processor for playback),
• Iomega RecordIt,
• CD audio,
• Sound Blaster VOC,
• Atari AVR (including stereo and 8- and 16-bit),
• Many varieties of MODs, ScreamTracker 3 (S3M), Multitracker (MTM),
• Impulse Tracker (IT) (requires a PowerPC processor),
• MIDI (type 0, 1 and 2, including GS and XG; playback only),
• Amiga IFF/8SVX (including stereo and compressed),
• Sound Designer and Sound Designer II (including split stereo),
• IRCAM (8- and 16-bit linear and 32-bit floating point), and
• Ensoniq PARIS,
• Psion Series 3 and EPOC 32 (Psion Series 5) sounds.

Between these few programs I find there is little I cannot accomplish. :)

[kodaks]

Thanks!