On 9/28/06 7:06 PM, "Martin Banner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone emailed me an mp3 of a choral performance today, and I was able > to open it up and play it easily using ITunes on my Mac G4 Powerbook > laptop. > > The mp3 contains three pieces for choir, without any tracks. Is it > possible to extract just the middle piece and create a completely > separate sound file with just that one choral selection on it? Hey Martin -- The suggestions people had for other audio programs are great, however, if you ARE still interested in doing this in iTunes, you can. It's a little clunky. 1. Select the song, and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. 2. In the info window, click the "Options" tab. As long as you know the start and stop times within the track for the middle piece, check the boxes for start and end time and enter those times. (Sometimes it takes a little trial and error -- but the times can go to hundredths of a second for better accuracy.) After you've done this, close the Get Info window. 3. Make sure the track is still selected, and then choose "Convert selection to ..." in the Advanced menu. It will say to convert to whatever file format you have selected in iTunes preferences for importing files (mp3, AAC, etc.). 4. After the conversion, a new track will appear with the same name as the original, but will only have the music from between the times you had selected for the start and end. Then you can choose "Get Info" again to rename it and label it differently from the original file. Don't forget, uncheck the boxes in the original track to play the whole thing again! And, of course, if you don't actually need to convert the thing, you could just use the Start/End time thing to play only what you need from the track in the first place. BTW -- All of these steps work in iTunes 7 for Mac. Don't know if previous versions or the Windows version work the same way. Hope this helps, or that you've gotten Audacity! -- Mike _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
