Re: [Harp-L] Music editing - Fading out Pre-recorded music (mp3, etc)

[Joel Fritz <williemctell@xxxxxxxxx>]

One thing that's true of Audacity and every other audio editor is that 
if you start with an mp3 file you'll have to convert it to wav 
(uncompressed) in order to work on it and then convert the finished 
product to mp3.  There's an unavoidable loss of quality.

 Audacity is a great piece of software, one of the best open source 
programs around.

On 7/9/2012 12:55 PM, Winslow Yerxa wrote:
> Audacity will do fades, and you can save the file with whatever effects you apply (such as fades). It's rich in features, pretty amazing for a free program.
>
> Winslow
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>   From: "Degregorio, Jeffery" <jeffery.degregorio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 12:07 PM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Music editing - Fading out Pre-recorded music (mp3, etc)
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> Hey everyone;
> What do you recommend if you want to take an existing mp3 file (or any other sound file) and edit it so that the music/sound fades out at the end (and save the file)?  Is there anything simple to use that's on line or free maybe?  Would Audacity work?  What's better for this purpose and can I download it?
> Thank you,
> Jeff
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> From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timothy Kane
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 1:56 PM
> To: Rick Davis; Bruce K Ritter
> Cc: Harp-L
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] splitting long recordings?
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> "Audacity is a free audio editor that will do that for you."
>   
> I agree. Best bang for the buck. Although I've found it not all that user friendly. One program I've used in the past is very simple to use and does a great job is Nero Wave Editor. Usually comes along with the Nero CD Burning Suites.
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