Matt Stevens (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kent_allard_jr) wrote,@ 2008-03-27 11:36:00 |
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Music Editor? For Free, Please
I got my father a cassette deck for his PC for Christmas. Unfortunately it was an internal device, there weren't any empty slots on his desktop, and my dad (who, while a smart guy, is now a senior citizen) is completely flummoxed by computers. (He's still getting the hang of the whole Internet thing.) On my last trip to Massachusetts he asked me to take the cassette deck and install it on my PC. So viola! I bought a very expensive gift ... for myself.
Not that I mind, though, since I have a buttload of cassettes from the 80s and early 90s, which I've been trying to transfer over the past day-and-a-half. Now the device software gives you two options: Convert the entire tape to a single file, or have them automatically split them up between silences. Naturally, I chose the latter, but since my tapes include a lot of "art rock" crap from the 70s (some of which I admittedly still like, as long I don't listen to the goofy lyrics), this doesn't work out too well. With long stretches of guys quietly blink-blinking on their guitars, interspersed with hard-rock carpet-bombing, the songs end up split into a half-dozen files, with awkward transitions between them.
What I need is an MP3 editor, something which lets me splice these bits together, or break a big file into smaller chunks. Anyone have suggestions? I'm not looking to become Phil Spector, I just want something simple, and preferably without having to pay anyone to use. Any recommendations?
I got my father a cassette deck for his PC for Christmas. Unfortunately it was an internal device, there weren't any empty slots on his desktop, and my dad (who, while a smart guy, is now a senior citizen) is completely flummoxed by computers. (He's still getting the hang of the whole Internet thing.) On my last trip to Massachusetts he asked me to take the cassette deck and install it on my PC. So viola! I bought a very expensive gift ... for myself.
Not that I mind, though, since I have a buttload of cassettes from the 80s and early 90s, which I've been trying to transfer over the past day-and-a-half. Now the device software gives you two options: Convert the entire tape to a single file, or have them automatically split them up between silences. Naturally, I chose the latter, but since my tapes include a lot of "art rock" crap from the 70s (some of which I admittedly still like, as long I don't listen to the goofy lyrics), this doesn't work out too well. With long stretches of guys quietly blink-blinking on their guitars, interspersed with hard-rock carpet-bombing, the songs end up split into a half-dozen files, with awkward transitions between them.
What I need is an MP3 editor, something which lets me splice these bits together, or break a big file into smaller chunks. Anyone have suggestions? I'm not looking to become Phil Spector, I just want something simple, and preferably without having to pay anyone to use. Any recommendations?
