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I've been trying to split a song medley into its three parts, but it's time to admit defeat. I just can't do it, and know that I will go to bed with the job undone after spending many hours of unproductive effort. NOT THIS TIME.!!!
There must be websites that can do this for a price or for free. In the past, I have sites that do many things, but I can't find one now that will do this. Does anyone have any ideas?
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
You can edit audio files with GarageBand. Also there's a free, open-source Audacity app that is very good.
You can edit audio files with GarageBand. Also there's a free, open-source Audacity app that is very good.
Well, I'm sure it can be done, but I'm just not sure that my reflexes are fast enough. I don't know if it's possible, but having more visible horizontal space to track with the time would help a lot. In other words, if two syllables could occupy two horizontal inches, I think I could do it. Faster than that and I'd probably be frantically clicking in the wrong places ending up with a blank screen. Frankly, I'd rather pay someone to do it for me.
I just thought of a way that would make it easy, but I'm not sure that it can be done. I have the recording. Is there. way that I can play it at, say, 25% speed? That would make it easy to stop and stop it at the proper places. Then, I'd still have the problem of making three separate audio files, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Take a look at Sound Studio for Mac. It's available in the app store or directly from the author. (You can download a free trial version from the author's site.)
In Sound Studio you can expand the waveform timeline as much as you want to get the exact spot where you want to make splits. After you insert a marker (for the split) you can finely adjust (drag) it's location if you didn't get it quite right at first. (No need to change the speed.)
Once your markers are in place, you can use Sound Studio's "split by marker" function to export the marked sections as individual files.
That depends. It CAN be easy, but it depends on the wave profile. It's definitely not easy with the wave I'm now looking at. Yes, I know you can change the profile, but nothing I do makes it easy. Funny thing, though, eight or nine years ago, I managed to extract a song from the very same medley and even posted it in YouTube. It was one of the five songs I posted there before I realized that I didn't have enough ability to do it-properly. Sometimes when you ask yourself, "Was I better then than I am now?" the answer is not one you like to hear.
Thanks for that. I don't know when you posted it, but less than five-minutes ago, I discovered that there are many, many apps for doing what I need. However, the very last sentence of you posting inclines me towards your choice. That was one of the "problems" that was worrying me.
"Sound Studios" sounds like a great app. but it costs $50, and I'm only planning on using it twice. I could use it for my needs and then not buy it, but that doesn't seem right. No, instead, I'll use one of the of the FREE apps. Thanks for your input, though.
What Old Toad said. Also, it is very easy to identify the pauses in music by looking at the waveforms:
[EDIT: the forum is not letting me upload an image at the moment, will try that later]
I found what I was looking for. There are many, many apps for changing the speed, and I'm now deciding which one to install.
Editing audio files
