echo-music edit

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if i'm a dork and i already recorded the cd track as a
windows media file, and don't have the cd to re-record as
mpeg or wav ... do you know of a specific way or website i
could use to edit this music file (8/15/03 - music is
drowning out the narration).
 
missmarla said:
if i'm a dork and i already recorded the cd track as a
windows media file, and don't have the cd to re-record as
mpeg or wav ... do you know of a specific way or website i
could use to edit this music file (8/15/03 - music is
drowning out the narration).
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Hi, missmarla. That doesn't make you a dork--I've certainly done worse!

A quick Google search turns up a number of sound converters. I looked
for "WMA convert WAV MP3" (without the quotation marks).
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=WMA+convert+WAV+MP3

http://www.audio-converter.com/ looks like it has possibilities.
http://www.mp3-converter.biz/wma-to-mp3-converter-directory/ has a ton
of options as well (it's the 2nd Google link).

Or perhaps others will pop in with their favorite sound editors. I use
Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge Studio, which is a scaled down version of
Sound Forge (which is great, but expensive and overkill for what you
need). Sound Forge Studion is $70-$100, though, and to be honest, I'm
not even positive it does WMA.
 
Echo and the other MVP's are the experts but I'll suggest
also checking Goldwave. There are a couple versions,
based on your OS. Fully functional demo and inexpensive
to buy it. I've used it for over a year and love it.
Check at www.goldwave.com
 
Tom said:
Echo and the other MVP's are the experts but I'll suggest
also checking Goldwave. There are a couple versions,
based on your OS. Fully functional demo and inexpensive
to buy it. I've used it for over a year and love it.
Check at www.goldwave.com
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Not in this area, I'm not, Tom! Thanks for the info on Goldwave. You
know, I've heard that program mentioned here in the group before, but
I've not tried it. So thanks for adding that to the mix!

Echo
 
I just downloaded dBpower Amp Music Converter. What a great free program!
Forgive me for going a bit off topic, but now that I've ripped a file from a
CD and converted it to WAV format it is huge (as expected). 4 + minutes=
almost 50 MB. (Maybe I should not have chosen CD quality in the conversion
options.) Is there any way to chop it in half so that it will take up less
space when it is embedded in a presentation? I suspect that it might bog
down some computers at that size, causing the presentation to run poorly,
but I may be wrong. I see freeware for chopping WAV files, but all of the
programs seem geared to just chopping where silent spaces occur.
Colleen
 
options.) Is there any way to chop it in half so that it will take up
less
space when it is embedded in a presentation?
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Good question. I thought "Sound Recorder?" then kicked myself for being so
silly.
But then I tried it and knocked a 24mb file down to 2mb in a couple seconds
by changing the properties and saving again.

Who'dathunkit?
 
Thanks Steve. I never thought of that. Tried it, converted to radio
quality and the file is now down to a miniscule 6 MB. Wow! Good thinkin'.
 
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