Need suggestion for easy to use audio editor...

MyHeartPumpsFreon · 03-01-2008, 07:29 PM

Hi,

I need an easy to use audio editor. Something that can cut out a piece of an audio file and save that apart from the original file.

Thanks,

Brandon

ranger_nemo · 03-01-2008, 07:44 PM

Audacity will do it, if you want a GUI.

Sox will do it, if you don't want a GUI.

sleekmason · 03-01-2008, 09:56 PM

I believe you are probably looking for ReZound. You can cut parts, slow music down without making the sound deeper, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Pretty cool. use it to slow down music bits i want to practice on guitar.

MyHeartPumpsFreon · 03-02-2008, 01:01 PM

Ranger,

I'm going with Audacity. The file that I want to cut up is an .mp3 file. It doesn't have support for this. I've given it the ability to export to .mp3, but it cannot play them. It says it needs to be compiled, but I'm not exactly sure how to do this. I installed it using yum. Please advise.

Regards,

Brandon

rickh · 03-02-2008, 02:34 PM

You need to install LAME. Depending on your distro, you'll probably need to locate it in an unofficial repository. At least if you're running one of the good distros that will be the case. Once you have it installed, you'll have to go to Audacity Preferences, and make sure Audacity knows you have it.

ranger_nemo · 03-02-2008, 03:41 PM

Fedora packages are configured to no use MP3 because it is not free. But third-parties recompile packages to use non-free files. Livna is one of those. Go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/ and follow the directions to add the repo into yum. Then, install audacity-nonfree and lame. You should then be able to read, edit, and write MP3 files in Audacity.

MyHeartPumpsFreon · 03-03-2008, 05:23 PM

Already have livna enabled, I'll install both of those and post the results.

Thanks guys.

MyHeartPumpsFreon · 03-03-2008, 05:51 PM

Code:

sudo yum -y install audacity-nonfree lame

The above command worked only after I uninstalled Audacity. Apparently they conflicted with each other, but after that it worked like a charm. Cutting up the track wasn't too difficult either.

Thanks Ranger.

Brandon