Automatic track division by time
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 25 Feb, 2005 from Omura, Nagasaki, Japan
I'm hoping to use Audacity (or something similar) to divide long audio tracks automatically by set time intervals. In know that the Marantz CD duplicator will do this, but being a missionary on a shoestring budget, I'm hoping to find a plug-in that will do the job and allow me to use the CD burner I already have. Any help/pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Jack Garrott
For the glory of God, to build up His Church, to communicate His love.
For the glory of God, to build up His Church, to communicate His love.
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- KVRAF
- 6937 posts since 4 Jun, 2004 from Utrecht, Holland
Firstly, welcome to KVR!
Resume (see weather I understand the problem correctly) You have one recorded WAV file of lets say one hour long. And for CD playback convenience you want to seperate that into tracks of, hmm say 5 minutes.
Whats the problem with just cutting it up manually in twelve parts, except that it takes time?
Missionaries work hard for their results...
Resume (see weather I understand the problem correctly) You have one recorded WAV file of lets say one hour long. And for CD playback convenience you want to seperate that into tracks of, hmm say 5 minutes.
Whats the problem with just cutting it up manually in twelve parts, except that it takes time?
Missionaries work hard for their results...
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 2 posts since 25 Feb, 2005 from Omura, Nagasaki, Japan
To be frank, I'm not even sure how to do the cutting. I've worked a good bit with MIDI and Finale notation, but I've worked very little with audio files in the computer. If there is a way to simply hit a button while the file is being read into the computer, that wouldn't be a major problem.
Thanks for the prompt response, by the way.
Thanks for the prompt response, by the way.
Jack Garrott
For the glory of God, to build up His Church, to communicate His love.
For the glory of God, to build up His Church, to communicate His love.
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- KVRAF
- 6937 posts since 4 Jun, 2004 from Utrecht, Holland
I haven't used audacity much, but I think it can be done in a way simular to this:
* select first part of the wav file with the mouse
* edit - cut
* edit - paste to new file
* save new file as track01.wav
* repeat that for more tracks
Enjoy!!
* select first part of the wav file with the mouse
* edit - cut
* edit - paste to new file
* save new file as track01.wav
* repeat that for more tracks
Enjoy!!
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- KVRian
- 1394 posts since 28 Mar, 2002 from Austria
Too bad that you don't have Wavelab. It has a very good Auto-Splitter for this.
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- KVRAF
- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
I concur with WaveLab as well... But I was pretty impressed with Audacity too when the SmEx team turned me onto it for their contest (It allows you to actually hear what a .DLL sounds like in a audio format - god awful! )
But I think Audacity is much like WaveLab in that you can simply highlight a segment of blobs (a song in JGarrot's case) and COPY TO NEW WINDOW or something like that in EDIT mode? Then just Save As 'song 1' or whatever it's called? Highlight the next 'blob of waves', copy out and Save As and so on.
It get's pretty easy when you get the hang of it, and wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to do.
And then with individual songs, you can easily clean up the 'silent areas' before and after the songs by highlighting the little portion just before the 'blob' starts and using DEL. Be careful on the ends though - sometimes there's reverb or delay that fade out. And though it looks like the 'blob' has ended, there might be a trace of reverb left. So always leave atleast 2sec after the 'blob' isn't visible at the end.
Pretty simple to get the hang of after awhile.
)But I think Audacity is much like WaveLab in that you can simply highlight a segment of blobs (a song in JGarrot's case) and COPY TO NEW WINDOW or something like that in EDIT mode? Then just Save As 'song 1' or whatever it's called? Highlight the next 'blob of waves', copy out and Save As and so on.
It get's pretty easy when you get the hang of it, and wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to do.
And then with individual songs, you can easily clean up the 'silent areas' before and after the songs by highlighting the little portion just before the 'blob' starts and using DEL. Be careful on the ends though - sometimes there's reverb or delay that fade out. And though it looks like the 'blob' has ended, there might be a trace of reverb left. So always leave atleast 2sec after the 'blob' isn't visible at the end.
Pretty simple to get the hang of after awhile.
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- KVRian
- 1118 posts since 31 Aug, 2001 from Los Angeles, CA
BeatCreator is my tool for this, you can instantly split a wav into multiple wav's (auto-numbered with bar)
Logic Audio also does this (alt-click with scissors).
Logic Audio also does this (alt-click with scissors).