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Shareware PC audio editing program: insert markers, etc.
I will appreciate recommendations for a shareware or inexpensive audio
editing program for PC that will enable recording from a cassette recorder, normalizing, inserting markers, splitting according to markers, and burning to CD. I use Amadeus Pro on the Mac and would like to find a PC application with similar functions. Thanks. Don |
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On 22 Nov 2009, don tuttle wrote in rec.audio.pro:
I will appreciate recommendations for a shareware or inexpensive audio editing program for PC that will enable recording from a cassette recorder, normalizing, inserting markers, splitting according to markers, and burning to CD. The free editor Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) will do all that except burning to CD. You'd need a separate program for that. Reaper (http://www.cockos.com/reaper/) is a full-featured multitrack editor/DAW so it's a little overqualified for your purpose, but it meets all your requirements. The popular CD burning suite Nero includes a simple audio recorder/editor that can do all that (if I recall correctly.) The excellent free CD ripping program Exact Audio Copy (EAC) (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) can do all that. You might find the interface a little clunky, though). The shareware CDWave (http://www.milosoftware.com/en/index...ody=cdwave.php) is good for splitting big WAV files into CD tracks. It can record, but not normalize adjust volume. |
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wrote: I will appreciate recommendations for a shareware or inexpensive audio editing program for PC that will enable recording from a cassette recorder, normalizing, inserting markers, splitting according to markers, and burning to CD. The free editor Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) will do all that except burning to CD. You'd need a separate program for that. Reaper (http://www.cockos.com/reaper/) is a full-featured multitrack editor/DAW so it's a little overqualified for your purpose, but it meets all your requirements. The popular CD burning suite Nero includes a simple audio recorder/editor that can do all that (if I recall correctly.) The excellent free CD ripping program Exact Audio Copy (EAC) (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) can do all that. You might find the interface a little clunky, though). The shareware CDWave (http://www.milosoftware.com/en/index...ody=cdwave.php) is good for splitting big WAV files into CD tracks. It can record, but not normalize adjust volume. Thanks for help. I saw 2008 comment online "Audacity does not have a track break/marker tool." If it now does, could you pls tell me where it is? I cannot find it on Mac Audacity and would like to be able to tell the PC guy helping me where it is in PC Audacity. Thx. Don |
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don tuttle wrote:
Thanks for help. I saw 2008 comment online "Audacity does not have a track break/marker tool." If it now does, could you pls tell me where it is? I cannot find it on Mac Audacity and would like to be able to tell the PC guy helping me where it is in PC Audacity. Thx. Don Of course the term 'Shareware ' is a bit vague these days . Many mainline apps work on a similar principla, and the term smacks more of 'amateur' that the sales model itself. You can download demo versions of mainstram applications , such as Sound Forge ( or SF Audio Studio, the cut-down version) , etc, for free and pay if it does what you want. geoff |
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On 22 Nov 2009, don tuttle wrote in rec.audio.pro:
Thanks for help. I saw 2008 comment online "Audacity does not have a track break/marker tool." If it now does, could you pls tell me where it is? I cannot find it on Mac Audacity and would like to be able to tell the PC guy helping me where it is in PC Audacity. It's not very intuitive. You need to add a new Label track (Tracks | Add New | Label Track). Then you can select a region of your project with the mouse, then choose Tracks | Add Label at Selection from the menu. Add as many labeled regions you want. You can drag the boundaries of the regions around as you like. Lastly, you can split the labeled regions into separate files by doing File | Export Multiple. I just learned how to do this today! |
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don tuttle wrote:
I will appreciate recommendations for a shareware or inexpensive audio editing program for PC that will enable recording from a cassette recorder, normalizing, inserting markers, splitting according to markers, and burning to CD. I use Amadeus Pro on the Mac and would like to find a PC application with similar functions. Goldwave is a likely candidate. Kind regards Peter Larsen Thanks. Don |
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Nil wrote:
On 22 Nov 2009, don tuttle wrote in rec.audio.pro: Thanks for help. I saw 2008 comment online "Audacity does not have a track break/marker tool." It's not very intuitive. You need to add a new Label track (Tracks | Add New | Label Track). Then you can select a region of your project with the mouse, then choose Tracks | Add Label at Selection from the menu. Add as many labeled regions you want. You can drag the boundaries of the regions around as you like. Lastly, you can split the labeled regions into separate files by doing File | Export Multiple. How very Unix-like, but effective. Thanks for posting this tip in a place where a lot of people who use Audacity don't hang out on a dedicated Audacity forum. I doubt I'll ever need it, but I know someone who uses Audacity will get some good mileage from this "new" cabability. How long has this been going on, by the way? I keep a copy of Audacity on my computers just in case, but don't get an update but about once every year or year or two. I'll have to look at my current versions to see if it's there. |
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Nil wrote:
It's not very intuitive. You need to add a new Label track (Tracks | Add New | Label Track). Then you can select a region of your project with the mouse, then choose Tracks | Add Label at Selection from the menu. Add as many labeled regions you want. After that "thanks" I'll have to add that it's not intuitive enough for me to figure it out. Maybe I don't have a sufficiently up-to-date version of Audacity. I found the Label Track and Add Label at Selection. A section of the Label Track was highlighted over the region I selected on the audio track. When clicking on something else, it removed the highlighting and left a pair of flags to mark the beginning and end of the region I marked. So far so good. I renamed the label track "Intro." Then when I wanted to add a second labeled region, I couldn't figure out how to do that. If I added a second Label Track, I couldn't get the second marked region into the second label track. It kept changing the markers in the "Intro" track. I tried moving the new label track up, thinking that it might only work on the top Label Track. (How Unix-like!). Nope, that didn't work either. So can you step through the process of, say, selecting several songs from a recording and "label" each one? |
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On 23 Nov 2009, Mike Rivers wrote in
rec.audio.pro: So can you step through the process of, say, selecting several songs from a recording and "label" each one? OK. I really haven't used Audacity much, I just keep it on my computer so I can make sure it's a good recommendation for a free and capable editor. I just learned how to do this yesterday in response to the question. I see now that it's even easier than I said before... 1. Open your big WAV file, of course. 2. Make sure you have the Selection Tool active. Select a portion of the audio by sweeping across it with the mouse. I like to start at the tracks end and sweep toward the beginning. 3. Choose Tracks | Add Label at Selection from the menu, or hit Ctrl-B. This will automatically add a Label Track. The cursor will be waiting for you to type in a label for the newly created region. 4. Select another region from later in the big file as you did the first. You will find that as you bump up an adjoining region that it stick there and a vertical yellow line appears - this helps you get the regions to butt up against each other properly. Lather, rinse, repeat. 5. Export the tracks with File | Export Multiple. |
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On 23 Nov 2009, Nil wrote in
rec.audio.pro: 1. Open your big WAV file, of course. 2. Make sure you have the Selection Tool active. Select a portion of the audio by sweeping across it with the mouse. I like to start at the tracks end and sweep toward the beginning. 3. Choose Tracks | Add Label at Selection from the menu, or hit Ctrl-B. This will automatically add a Label Track. The cursor will be waiting for you to type in a label for the newly created region. 4. Select another region from later in the big file as you did the first. You will find that as you bump up an adjoining region that it stick there and a vertical yellow line appears - this helps you get the regions to butt up against each other properly. Lather, rinse, repeat. 5. Export the tracks with File | Export Multiple. Just for the hell of it, I made a little movie demo of the above process with a screen capture program I'm playing with. The clip is about 25 MB, so it may or may not not be worth the download time, but here it is: http://home.comcast.net/~esionder/temp/Audacity-tracksplit.avi |
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Was this of any help to anyone?
On 23 Nov 2009, Nil wrote in rec.audio.pro: On 23 Nov 2009, Mike Rivers wrote in rec.audio.pro: So can you step through the process of, say, selecting several songs from a recording and "label" each one? OK. I really haven't used Audacity much, I just keep it on my computer so I can make sure it's a good recommendation for a free and capable editor. I just learned how to do this yesterday in response to the question. I see now that it's even easier than I said before... 1. Open your big WAV file, of course. 2. Make sure you have the Selection Tool active. Select a portion of the audio by sweeping across it with the mouse. I like to start at the track's end and sweep toward the beginning. 3. Choose Tracks | Add Label at Selection from the menu, or hit Ctrl-B. This will automatically add a Label Track. The cursor will be waiting for you to type in a label for the newly created region. 4. Select another region from later in the big file as you did the first. You will find that as you bump up an adjoining region that it sticks there and a vertical yellow line appears - this helps you get the regions to butt up against each other properly. Lather, rinse, repeat. 5. Export the tracks with File | Export Multiple. |
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Nil wrote:
Was this of any help to anyone? It will, if I remember it next time I'm using Audacity and need to split up a file. Perhaps it's because I don't really understand the graphics of the Label track, but it's hard to tell that it's working. I expected that by naming the label track I could name each sectin (Song 1, Song 2, etc.) but it seems that there's only one label track for the project even though Ctrl-B is nomially "Create a label track." |
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On 25 Nov 2009, Mike Rivers wrote in
rec.audio.pro: Nil wrote: Was this of any help to anyone? It will, if I remember it next time I'm using Audacity and need to split up a file. Perhaps it's because I don't really understand the graphics of the Label track, but it's hard to tell that it's working. I expected that by naming the label track I could name each sectin (Song 1, Song 2, etc.) but it seems that there's only one label track for the project even though Ctrl-B is nomially "Create a label track." You can separately name each region. Read my description again - step 3 is specific about that. And the video I posted shows it in action. |
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Nil wrote:
You can separately name each region. Read my description again - step 3 is specific about that. And the video I posted shows it in action. I looked at the video and I see that you have a different version than I have. I have 1.2.6 which is the last non-beta version. You must have 1.3.something. I see from the Audacity web site page that it was at 1.3 that they added the "improved Label track." Mine has the ability to create a Label track but there's no "Track" in the main menu bar. I don't use the program very often, mostly only when I want to recommend it to someone and check to be sure it does what he wants. I'll load up the latest version and see what's new. Thanks |
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Mike Rivers (That's me!) wrote:
I looked at the video and I see that you have a different version than I have. I have 1.2.6 which is the last non-beta version. You must have 1.3.something. I installed the latest version 1.3.9 Beta and it works just like you say. But that doesn't mean I'll remember it. g |
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On 25 Nov 2009, Mike Rivers wrote in
rec.audio.pro: I installed the latest version 1.3.9 Beta and it works just like you say. But that doesn't mean I'll remember it. g Ah, so, it was a version discrepancy. I should have thought of that. Anyway, you don't have to remember this - now that we've had this discussion, you can search for it the google archives. |
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