help to use audacity

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Hi There

Can anyone out there please help me in laymans terms on how to use audacity?

I want to fade out music tracks on a Power Point presenatation and have
tried to use audacity to do this without success so far.

My computer knowledge is fairly basic!!
 
Bit off topic in this forum, but here goes.

Firstly have a sniff around the Audicity Tutorials/Wiki
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

Here's a bit on fading out ...
http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/audacity_step05.html

Basically open wav/mp3/whatever sound file in Audacity, should have 2 tracks
showing in most cases (stereo). Click and Drag the mouse to select the ending
you wish to fade or cut off. Then up to menu Effect -> "Fade Out".

Probably only other trick is you need to Export file to save as a sound file
(wav/mp3/.....) instead of audacity's native file type.

Basic overview, but read the tutorials.
Their forum is http://audacityteam.org/forum/

kraves.

PS. Powerpoint might bring on better sound features soon.
Could do with basic cutting, fade in/out, x-fade.
 
Hi Kraves
Thanks for all the info I will have another try.
I can get the basic stuff on the audacity screen eg 2 seperate tracks, song
title and everything appears to be there that I need, when I click the play
button all I get is a screeching noise, the file format of the song is in WMA
format.
Any other ideas?
Keith
 
Another quick thought.
Audacity won't convert files that are protected (i.e. DRM) so some wma work
others don't.

If you used Windows Media Player to convert/record/rip something the daulft
option is wma but you can change to mp3 before you rip. My understanding is
Win media player will DRM protect rips from a commercial cd.

So if you set WMPlayer to use mp3 you might stop all you worries!!


kraves.
 
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