Is there a free/ trial program that can edit .mp3 files to get a certain length out of them i need it for a music project

So i want a part taken from a song in other words

It's only a trial program, but even for just a trial version it's one of the simplest. GoldWave.

Audacity is one that you get free with Ubuntu, that's okay... It's open source aswell so... Try it .

You can do it with dBpowerAmp Music Converter (Convert -> DSP Effect)

The Nero Wave Editor I find is also very good. It is included in a demo pack here.

As traxor said, Audacity is meant to be good on all platforms - its free too. I've never used it personally, but I've only heard good things about it from reviews, other people, guides etc.

I have made one using traxor's links, thanks for all your help everybody

this is not the finshed one as it's crap but an experiment

My crappy mix


if anyone could do something like this but make it good i would be very thankful That being a mix of the plus theme and clocks by coldplay for my music homework

blah, but who would do that

Yep, it's crap. The first song continues for too long when the 2nd is already playing.

In depth-review: Till 00:25 it sounds great. Then it sucks really much for 2 secs, after which it is still bad until 01:03. Then it's nice again at 01:25 it sounds crap, but this stops soon. 01:36 till 2:00 is really nice. At 2:02 the songs gets a *lot* louder all of a sudden, and then It's bad quality for a few secs. (This is with beep media player, Gtk+ fork of XMMS). I also think that the part where the voice of song 2 is really soft should be altered a bit - less of the voice (or none at all).

I think it's good for a first try. Keep on trying!!

Good luck. (Oh, and can you post it in .ogg format next time? I'd prefer that).

I have now finshed my music project it's sounds crap also but not as crap as before:

First try

Second try

quote:

---

Originally posted by Absorbation

Second try

---

Audacity so i could'nt do that much

1st is nice but a bit repetitive. The 2nd is better. Can you post them in another format than mp3? OGG or something..

In OGG format:

http://www.plussounds.net/Other/music2.ogg

Thank you!

If you can do not edit MP3 files. Edit the original WAV files. MP3 files will, just like JPG images, loose information each time you edit them or save them. The quality will get worse and worse!

I think he did so, yes. The quality of the OGG is amazingly crap

quote:

---

Originally posted by http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#transcode

Can I convert my MP3 collection to the Ogg Vorbis format?

    You can convert any audio format to Ogg Vorbis. However, converting from one lossy format, like MP3, to another lossy format, like Vorbis, is generally a bad idea. Both MP3 and Vorbis encoders achieve high compression ratios by throwing away parts of the audio waveform that you probably won't hear. However, the MP3 and Vorbis codecs are very different, so they each will throw away different parts of the audio, although there certainly is some overlap. Converting a MP3 to Vorbis involves decoding the MP3 file back to an uncompressed format, like WAV, and recompressing it using the Ogg Vorbis encoder. The decoded MP3 will be missing the parts of the original audio that the MP3 encoder chose to discard. The Ogg Vorbis encoder will then discard other audio components when it compresses the data. At best, the result will be an Ogg file that sounds the same as your original MP3, but it is most likely that the resulting file will sound worse than your original MP3. In no case will you get a file that sounds better than the original MP3.

    Since many music players can play both MP3 and Ogg files, there is no reason that you should have to switch all of your files to one format or the other. If you like Ogg Vorbis, then we would encourage you to use it when you encode from original, lossless audio sources (like CDs). When encoding from originals, you will find that you can make Ogg files that are smaller or of better quality (or both) than your MP3s.

    (If you must absolutely must convert from MP3 to Ogg, there are several conversion scripts available on Freshmeat.)

---

Yes but i had to use mp3 as it needs to be uploaded to our school. In the network we only get 5mb and the wav formats are far to large to use so i was forced to use mp3

quote:

---

Originally posted by Absorbation
Yes but i had to use mp3 as it needs to be uploaded to our school. In the network we only get 5mb and the wav formats are far to large to use so i was forced to use mp3

---

Wow that was a very quick reply and the track i found was mp3 already but i could of edited some sections (3) to wav

MP3 -> Wav isn't much use unless your player can't play MP3

Can't you find a WAV version?