Thanks, Jeff.
I really like your list of hotkeys for the MP3DirectCut software. You sent
this to me privately, but I found your work so helpful, that I want to share
it with the community.
So, for everyone who wants to make the quickest and most effecient use of
the many features for editing your MP3s, please read Jeff's message below.
Regards,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Samco"
I also recommend MP3DirectCut for a simple MP3
editor. I have worked up a basic list of keyboard
commands which may help someone who is just starting out using MP3DirectCut.
MP3 Direct Cut is a free direct mp3 editor, splitter, cutter and recorder.
Download it from
Control+O: Opens a normal Windows dialogue for
selecting and opening an MP3 file to edit.
Play and Stop by using the SpaceBar.
During playback, the F8 key will increase
playback speed and F7 will decrease it.
Rewind and fast forward using cursor left and right or page-up and
page-down.
The latter two keys move in larger increments than the first two.
The number of frames each pair moves can be set via the configuration menu.
The Home key moves to the beginning of the file.
The End key moves to the end.
One can move to a specific location in a file by time.
Use Ctrl-P to bring up an editable text box
showing the total time of the file and the current time location.
Edit the current time location to where you wish to move, then press Enter.
Leave in place the apostrophes, which separate hours minutes and seconds.
How to mark beginning and end points of a
selection for deletion, saving as a separte file, etc:
While playback is stopped,
Use the letter b to mark the beginning of a selection
Use the letter n to mark the end of a selection
When beginning and end points are set, use the
Up-arrow and Down-arrow keys to jumpt to each location respectively.
The following commands use the numbers row above the letter keys,
not the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard.
These commands move by frame. One frame is roughly a 38th of a second:
1: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the left
2: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the right
3: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the left
4: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the right
With the following keys, one can exactly hear,
where the margins of a selection are:
F5: Plays the two seconds before the beginning mark of a selection
F6: Plays the first two seconds of a selection
F7: Plays the last two seconds of a selection
F8: Plays the two seconds after the end mark of a selection
F9: Plays a portion of the file around the
selection as if the selection had been deleted
To remove a selection, press the delete key.
This does not touch the MP3 file.
It just modifies an MP3DirectCut index.
Therefore, deletes and cuts are made quickly.
There are also menu options and shortcut keys to
save a selection into a different file.
For instance, Ctrl-E will save the selection with
the opportunity to choose its own filename.
and Ctrl-W will save the entire audio using the
current name or edit it to something different.
To split an MP3 file, which consists of a
complete album, one can use the pause detection
feature, which can be reached via the menu system.
It will set a marker before each song. These
markers are actually selections with a length of zero.
To check the markers, one can go from one to the
other with Control cursor right and Control cursor left.
The file can then be split according to the markers.
Or one can save a cue sheet file or an MP3 DirectCut project file.
Both would contain the markers.
With these marker files, one can easily find certain positions in an MP3
file.
There are recording shortcuts.
r: Opens the record dialog, in which sighted
people can adjust the recording level
p: Starts the recording, when the recording dialog is open
s: Stops the recording.
At 08:39 AM 3/4/2014, you wrote:
If your music files ar in MP3, I suggest you download the free software,
called
MP3DirectCut
The benefit of this software, compared to all the other editing software I
have tested, is that it will perform the editing directly on the MP3. All
other software seem to first convert the MP3 into some other format - like
Wav, perform the editing, and then automatically re-encode to MP3. For you
as a user, all of this happens automatically. Yet, it does decrease the
sound quality.
Since MP3DirectCut does all the editing directly on the MP3 data, you dont
loose sound quality. The software is freeware, and can be found on the net.
Simply search for the name, and one of the first choices coming up would be
their homepage. Seem to remember, it ends in .DE, likely since it is a
German product. No worries, it has an English interface. It is possible to
operate it by the mouse-buttons, but it holds a number of hotkes, that will
let you do all the modification. It is quite accessible, and I have used it
a lot for editing MP3 files.
Besides cutting the ends of the file, you even can cut and paste anywhere
in the file. You can split and merge files, or take a part of one file, and
paste it into another file. You can even out the volume level of your
files, and you can search for long pauses in the middle of a sound project.
In other words, you can do pretty much what you need to do, both simple and
more advanced editing. And, it seems to work with all MP3 formats. Too bad,
it does not work with other formats. Smile.
Regards,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerardo Corripio" <[email protected]>
To: "Karen Poulakos" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Window-eyes friendly music editing software
Audacity
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El 04/03/2014, a las 09:41 a.m., "Karen Poulakos" <[email protected]>
escribió:
I'm looking for a very simple program that will allow me to edit the
length of some recorded music. This isn't something I expect to have to
do a lot of, so I'd like it to be as uncomplicated as possible. I'm using
the current version of Window-eyes, with Windows XP.
Thanks.
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