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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Does anyone know where I can download some free software that edits mp3s? I want to edits some files I have...

Thanks

Andrew

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

If you have Sound recorder, you can edit MP3s. Mind you you have to convert them to WAV first and back to MP3 afterwards...

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

How large would a five minute song be in Soundrecorder!?!

What program would I need for the conversion back to mp3?

Are there anyother easier ways?

Andrew

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

These questions, and more, answered on the next episode of "FlareTalk"!

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

I'd suggest GoldWave. IIRC, you can edit MP3s to an extreme degree using it.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

As someone who edits mp3's all the time, I shall impart some information to you.

Yes, you have to change an mp3 to wav file before you can edit it.
If you use Winamp(www.winamp.com), it comes with a function to change the mp3 into a wav file.
You can use sound recorder to edit the wav file(I use cool edit pro). The change the file back to an mp3, you can use Audiograbber from Xing(not sure on the website) or CDCopy (cdcopy.actadivina.com), which also makes mp3s from CD tracks.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

And how many of those are free?

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, Winamp is free, of course. I don't know about the others.

I can say from experience that converting full MP3 songs into WAVs and opening them in Sound Recorder can be a problem. My computer crashes whenever I try it... :-)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

What I think is fascinating is that if you have a 5:30 minute long mp3, it's correspondingly 5.3 mb too, if the frequenzy is 44KHz and the bitrate is the standard 128 Kb/s.
Any higher and the file-size rises. A song that's 1:35 long is 1.45mb big, (I just checked).
This means that you can SEE how long it is just by looking at the file-size. I don't think this is a coincedence.
Anyone know the history or creation of the mp3?

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Winamp, Audiograbber, CDCopy are all free. The last two however are shareware, and need to be registered sometime.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Tim: I opened a 50 some odd MB WAV in sound recorder

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

I once opened up a similar sized wave file in Sound Recorder as well, but only after nearly 1 hour. I don't remember exactly how long, but it was long...and during that time, I couldn't do anything on the computer.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

It took about 5 minutes to load the song up. But that's on a Celeron 500 with 64 MB RAM

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I forget how big the one was that I tried to open. It came from a 12.5MB MP3. It crashed after a few minutes. But, I think I'd blame that on Win98SE. Like everything else... :-)

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Indeed. This damned OS is annoying, isn't it, Tim?

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

That's why I bought Linux last night. Hopefully, I'll manage to get it installed soon... :-)

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :

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That's why I bought Linux last night. Hopefully, I'll manage to get it installed soon

You don't know what you've got ahead of you. It took me three weeks to install Mandrake 7.0, including getting the sound to work and to get my various USB things to be detected. Not to mention configuring the kernel to a tee.

And I still haven't found a winmodem driver for my Compaq modem, so I can only go online in Windows until I buy a "real" modem ...

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, I got Red Hat. If this is the easy-to-install distribution, I don't want to see the hard ones...

Actually, I'm just kidding. So far, the problems I'm having aren't Linux' fault. The problems stem from the fact that I didn't put more than one partition on my hard drive when I set up the computer, the fact that Win98 uses a stupid Microsoft type of partition, rather than normal FAT32, and that fact that I don't have any way to back up right now (I'm going to buy a CD-RW as soon as possible).

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Can I ask... whats a 'partition' on your hard drive again?

Oh and thanks for the mp3 info... I'll go try it out!

Thanks

Andrew

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

A partition is when you split your hardrive into two (or more) parts, thus giving you more drives. I, for instance, have a C drive, a D drive, and my CD-RW is E drive.

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :

More acurrately, a partition defines the file system(s) on a hard disk and how many sectors a filesystem is allocated. Linux uses the Unix standard, Extended 2. Windows, more conventionally, uses FAT 16 or 32. I also believe MyOS, OS2, and BeOS have there own respective file systems as well. Also, unlike Windows, Linux requires a swap partition seperate from the space applications occupy; so thus, there is no performance loss when your Linux partition is full.

Most distributions of Linux on a CD come with a utility to slice you hard drive up into the necessary pieces (i.e. a cut down version of Partition Magic).

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Isn't that penguin adorable though? Awww.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Scuzzy: Yeah, my problem is that the partition utility w/ Linux couldn't cut parts out of the already-existing Windows partition. I borrowed Partition Magic from a friend, but it was an old version, and it couldn't work w/ FAT32X, which is apparently a spawn of Microsoft designed for Win98. So, I got a CD-RW, and I'm going to back everything up and start over, making multiple partitions to start with...

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :

I have a new version of PM that can work with Fat32. I could send you the install program through e-mail/icq.

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