Manipulating WAV files

[Dieter Britz[_2_]]

I have bought a little gadget that digitises music for me, into *.wav
files. It is said to be able to divide the recording into tracks after
the digitising process, but this doesn't work that well.

Is there software that can do this, interactively with the user (me)?
I envisage listening to the file, and pressing a button when I want a
new track, i.e. a new file. Does this sort of thing exist?
--
Dieter Britz (dieterbritz<at>yahoo.com)

[Richard Crowley]

Dieter Britz wrote:
> I have bought a little gadget that digitises music for me, into *.wav
> files. It is said to be able to divide the recording into tracks after
> the digitising process, but this doesn't work that well.
>
> Is there software that can do this, interactively with the user (me)?
> I envisage listening to the file, and pressing a button when I want a
> new track, i.e. a new file. Does this sort of thing exist?

This is typically done *visually* by looking at the waveform on the
computer screen. Most audio non-linear-editing (NLE) applicaitons
do this. For example a popular freeware audio NLE is Audacity...
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[Michael Black[_2_]]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Richard Crowley wrote:

> Dieter Britz wrote:
>> I have bought a little gadget that digitises music for me, into *.wav
>> files. It is said to be able to divide the recording into tracks after
>> the digitising process, but this doesn't work that well.
>>
>> Is there software that can do this, interactively with the user (me)?
>> I envisage listening to the file, and pressing a button when I want a
>> new track, i.e. a new file. Does this sort of thing exist?
>
> This is typically done *visually* by looking at the waveform on the
> computer screen. Most audio non-linear-editing (NLE) applicaitons
> do this. For example a popular freeware audio NLE is Audacity...
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>
I initially tried a program that did the separation automatically, and it
often got fooled, by pauses in the music, or with live recordings clapping
so there was no silent period.

I tried an editor that gave a visual representation, and the line really
was quite clear. Yes, you have to look through the file to find the
places, but it seemed to be faster than fidgeting with the variables on
the automatic program.

Michael