I am total technophobe, so need talking to as if I were at least 80 years old and rather dim.
I have literally thousands of tracks on my computer via Napster, i-tunes and from my cd's. Some of them have long spoken intros, or (in the case of folk tracks) long acapella first verses before the actual tune comes in.
Without buying expensive editing software, is there any way I can cut a bit of a track off and keep the rest?
Yes I don't see why not; it wouldn't be much good as an editing programme if you couldn't take bits off. There's probably a sound wave graphic with the time of the track marked along it. I expect it is possible to put a marker in and delete everything before or after it.
Originally posted by Officer Crabtree: Yes I don't see why not; it wouldn't be much good as an editing programme if you couldn't take bits off. There's probably a sound wave graphic with the time of the track marked along it. I expect it is possible to put a marker in and delete everything before or after it.
You jump the gun, and actually my question could have been clearer. At the moment I haven't got any editing software. Do I have to buy some? Is there any in the public domain that I can just download?
kids today, eh? it's all about instant access, short attention span, here today- gone tomorrow, I've got mine, don't worry about his...
whatever happened to the excitement, the magic and expectation of the crackle of a record before the needle reached the start of the track, the hiss of a cassette as the leader tape wound past....
nowadays it's all Xbox, Ipod Nintendo, download this, download that, none of that old fashioned record shop malarkey, oh no, a far cry from jumpers for goalposts, listening under the bedclothes.....
Originally posted by don't call me shirley: so need talking to as if I were at least 80 years old and rather dim.
oh. okay then. I mean OKAY THEN.
ARE YOU OKAY, LOVE? DO YOU NEED A HAND CROSSING THE ROAD?
That's the way.
But I mean the deferring gratification bit is all very well, but some of these spoken intros are well over a minute long. Once is enough. And folkie though I am, those long, half-speed first verses they do before the band cuts in...I'm older than a lot of you. I may not make it to the end of the intro.
Do I have to buy some? Is there any in the public domain that I can just download?
That's the way.
