Bill, Use Garageband, this allows you to edit out all you want. Open Garageband, drag the song into Garageband, it will copy (unless it is protected, then you'll have to burn all the songs to a CD that you are wanting to work with, then import them again). Now the song you just imported drag that into Garageband.
Start to listen to the song and when you get to the point you want to cut out a section, stop listening. Under Edit you will find "Split" (Apple T) this will place a marker. Continue listening (which will be the section you are wanting to cut out) and once you reach the end of that section stop. Hit the "split" again and then highlight the section you are wanting to delete. You can hit the delete key but that will leave a gap in the recording so you would have to "drag" the section that is on the right up to where it touches the section on the left so the better way is to hold down the Apple key then hit the delete and the program will bring the two ends together for you. Continue on this way until you finish your song. Once you are done with the editing go up to "share" in the Garageband header and choose iTunes and you will possibly want to give the name of the song an new name, or add a .1 behind it as you will now have three copies of it in iTunes. The one that was downloaded, the one you imported from the CD and now the edited copy. From there you can create your own folders to move the songs you want into them. I just came back from a two day training session with almost 11 gig of voice recordings. It took me a week with almost no sleep to get all this edited, taking it down to 9.2 gig but the "flow" is now fantastic with all the dead spots, nonsensical info. chatter, discussions off subject, etc. etc. removed. I hope this helps, let me know if you need anything else. John On Mar 2, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey folks, > > I thought I might try to go through my iTunes library, and cut out > the big empty spaces on the last track of a bunch of my CDs. [1] My > songs are saved as .m4a (aac) files. > > I've found the method of stopping playback early or starting > playback late (select song, File->Get Info, select the options > tab),. This isn't the right solution, because it requires 2 full > copies of the song to cut out the dead air in the middle of the > song. A big waste of space when the songs are put on an iPod nano. > > I've also tried a suggestion from an old macosxhints page [2] which > involved using Advanced->Convert Selection to AAC, but this > converts the entire song, not just the part that should be played. > (It looks like something that may have once worked in older > versions of iTunes, because macosxhints refers to the menu item as > Advanced->Convert Selection to AAC... and the ... mean a dialog box > of some sort will open.) > > Most other suggestions found on the web consist of using an > intermediate file format (like mp3). This is not a good solution, > because it degrades the sound. (I believe that using Garage Band to > split a track and then rejoin it goes through this double > conversion, because it changes the color of the track from orange > (recording) to purple (real instrument), and then warns about a > loss of quality when saving to aac.) > > Does anyone have any hints? > > Bill > > [1] <rant>I cannot understand why this was ever considered > something that anybody buying the CD would ever want. I suppose it > could be considered an Easter Egg, but only in the sense that an > uncooked egg was dipped in manure and then left to sit out in the > sun for 40 days.</rant> > [2] http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/ > t-46340.html_______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be March 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be March 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
