Tool for Editing a mp3 file

[W. Watson]

I'd like to shorten an mp3 file by 10 minutes. Are there any tools that will
do that?

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have tried about half a dozen tools and by far the best
and most versatile was WavePad. It essentially treats a
sound file like a word processing file, allowing you to
cut, copy, insert, delete, undo, fade-in, fade-out etc. etc.
It can handle all popular sound file formats. The cut-down
version is freeware but the fully featured version is not.
www.nch.com.au/wavepad

 

[W. Watson]

I have tried about half a dozen tools and by far the best
and most versatile was WavePad. It essentially treats a
sound file like a word processing file, allowing you to
cut, copy, insert, delete, undo, fade-in, fade-out etc. etc.
It can handle all popular sound file formats. The cut-down
version is freeware but the fully featured version is not.
www.nch.com.au/wavepad

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm looking for a quick solution now to just
knock 10 minutes off the file length. Something free. I looked at mptrim,
but it couldn't take the 11M file. Someone suggested WMM, but trying to
locate a downloadable version of 2.1 has been a hassle. All sources point to
Windows Dowload Center. From there I go to Media, and that gives me 168
choices to page through. Nothing there. Strange.

 

[V Green]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm looking for a quick solution now to just
knock 10 minutes off the file length. Something free. I looked at mptrim,
but it couldn't take the 11M file. Someone suggested WMM, but trying to
locate a downloadable version of 2.1 has been a hassle. All sources point to
Windows Dowload Center. From there I go to Media, and that gives me 168
choices to page through. Nothing there. Strange.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm looking for a quick solution now to just
knock 10 minutes off the file length. Something free.

Mhm. I seem to recall writing that WavePad has a free basic version.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

This might help.

MP3Cutter 4:
http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/

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I have tried about half a dozen tools and by far the best
and most versatile was WavePad. It essentially treats a
sound file like a word processing file, allowing you to
cut, copy, insert, delete, undo, fade-in, fade-out etc. etc.
It can handle all popular sound file formats. The cut-down
version is freeware but the fully featured version is not.
www.nch.com.au/wavepad

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm looking for a quick solution now to just
knock 10 minutes off the file length. Something free. I looked at mptrim,
but it couldn't take the 11M file. Someone suggested WMM, but trying to
locate a downloadable version of 2.1 has been a hassle. All sources point to
Windows Dowload Center. From there I go to Media, and that gives me 168
choices to page through. Nothing there. Strange.

 

[W. Watson]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I downloaded it and lane. The latter is necessary to create the final mp3
file. It's doing that right now. Installing lame was something of a mystery.
I downloaded it and unzipped it into a directory. It appears one needs to
connect to the lame.dll file by executing audacity. The latter then asks at
the need to write a file where lame.dll is located. Strange. Even stranger
is the resulting file. It's 15 minutes long (good), but is 14M (not
good)--bigger than the original file.


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

 

[V Green]

I downloaded it and lane. The latter is necessary to create the final mp3
file. It's doing that right now. Installing lame was something of a mystery.
I downloaded it and unzipped it into a directory. It appears one needs to
connect to the lame.dll file by executing audacity. The latter then asks at
the need to write a file where lame.dll is located. Strange. Even stranger
is the resulting file. It's 15 minutes long (good), but is 14M (not
good)--bigger than the original file.

You need to learn all the ins & outs of using Lame. Lots
of stuff on this - Google will help you find it.

sounds like you re-compressed to a higher bitrate than the
original MP3.

I never use Lame from within Audacity - I use it at a command-
line prompt so I can be sure of what it's gonna do.

My workflow looks like this:

load MP3 into Audacity>>fiddle/edit/etc. with it>>export
as .WAV>>fire up LAME from Command Prompt>>
re-encode from there

 

[Math1]

http://www.mptrim.com/ Easy, fast, and also will fix sound if you want.