Hi Shaun, This doesn't answer your question about how to split tracks in Sound Studio, but since I've been looking at Automator text to speech imports into compressed files with iTunes, I thought I'd mention there's a way you can split sound files using iTunes. Under the options pane for a song that you can reach with Get Info (Command-I) in iTunes there are fields where you can input the start and stop time of for your track.
By default the start time will be 0:00 and the stop time will be the playing time for the complete track in hours, minutes, and seconds format (so a song might be five minutes long, or 5:00, while a book ripped from a CD might be 1:00:00, or an hour long). If you change these values, the track will only play between the start time and the stop time that you've set. If you convert the file, for example from an AIFF file that gets produced from the text to speech commands in Automator, or by saving the output of the say command into a file under terminal and then adding it to your iTunes library, then only the part the plays gets converted. The down side of this is that if you start with a compressed file, such as an mp3 file, you can only split it into segments this way by down-converting it, so you could lose some quality. However, that's not generally an issue for speech files or if you split a file that is not compressed to begin with, such as the AIFF files in my example. This also doesn't have the functionality of a sound editor, but it's sometimes a useful trick to know. Remember to delete your start and stop time entries on the Option pane under Get Info after you're done, or you'll only hear part of the original file when you play it. HTH Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2007, at 10:28AM, VaShaun Jones wrote: >Does anyone have any good editing salutions? I am using Sound Studio >and need to cut a track into four pieces. I set markers and saved it >as four tracks, but this didn't work. Can someone please guide me >through this? > > >
