Freeware Audio Editing Software?

[Piggy]

Can anyone recommend a free audio editing app?

I don't need anything fancy. Just the ability to splice tracks together, remove blank space, chop, fade in/out, that kind of stuff.

For example, I want to reduce Pink Floyd the Wall to one disc of selected songs, ditto for Sandinista, and the bleed-thru between tracks on the originals makes the results unacceptable when I use my Roxio application.

 

[logical muse]

Try Audacity.

 

[CFLarsen]

Or Wavepad.

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/

 

[Piggy]

Thanks!

 

[bigred]

...or browse www.tucows.com. Great download site for freeware or to try shareware.

 

[Piggy]

...or browse www.tucows.com. Great download site for freeware or to try shareware.

I didn't find any freeware on Tucows that could do what I wanted. Maybe I just wasn't using the right search parameters.

Anyway, I burned my single-disk Wall with Audacity and am listening to it now. Perfect.

 

[Pyrrho]

With Audacity, I am recording old 78 rpm records on my 33 1/3 and 45 rpm turntable, and converting to 78.

 

[69dodge]

With Audacity, I am recording old 78 rpm records on my 33 1/3 and 45 rpm turntable, and converting to 78.

Don't 78s need a different needle (bigger)?

 

[MortFurd]

With Audacity, I am recording old 78 rpm records on my 33 1/3 and 45 rpm turntable, and converting to 78.

Conrad Electronics here in Germany sells a turntable for converting LPs to wav, and they include a copy of Audacity with it.

 

[Piggy]

Conrad Electronics here in Germany sells a turntable for converting LPs to wav, and they include a copy of Audacity with it.

Wow. That'd be greeet!

I have a few hundred LPs and almost never play them anymore. Back in college I converted most of my (then) collection to cassette, but I'd love to have some of that stuff on disc.

 

[MortFurd]

Wow. That'd be greeet!

I have a few hundred LPs and almost never play them anymore. Back in college I converted most of my (then) collection to cassette, but I'd love to have some of that stuff on disc.

I checked, and you can get the same gizmo from ZZounds in the US.

The record player sends digitized audio straight to your PC over USB. It'd be too expensive for me to do my few records, but might come in real handy if you've got a load of really good albums you'd like to have digitized.

It only transfers in real time, of course There's no real practical way to copy an LP faster than normal playback speed. Doing so would thoroughly fark up your audio response to the deemphasis. You'd also lose a lot of the high frequencies.

 

[De_Bunk]

Shop around...There are some very cheap USB turntables out there. If they are cheap in the UK...they gotta be cheaper in the USA.

Use Audacity..I've used it for years and its prob the best bit of 'freeware' sound editor out there. Its got everything i'd ever need.

DB

 

[Piggy]

It'd be too expensive for me to do my few records, but might come in real handy if you've got a load of really good albums you'd like to have digitized.

Yeah, especially the one-offs, like a fan-club bootleg vinyl of Led Zep in concert.