Recommend a good, free, downloadable MP3 editor?

[Buried Alien]

Could someone please recommend a good, free, downloadable MP3 editing software? I need something that can help me shave off the ending few seconds of a song.

Thanks.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Brett P]

You can do that on itunes, that's all I know.

[ImpulseUCF]

Could someone please recommend a good, free, downloadable MP3 editing software? I need something that can help me shave off the ending few seconds of a song.

Thanks.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)Goldwave and Audacity are excellent. Goldwave is Shareware, but Audacity is 100% free. I've used both for recording and editing.

[Spike-X]

You can do that on itunes, that's all I know.
That won't actually edit the file, though, that just tells it to finish early.

[Buried Alien]

OK. I've downloaded Audacity and it did what I wanted it to do, but now I've got a new problem.

If you know the Beatles' SGT. PEPPER album, you know that the songs flow into each other continuously with no gaps of silence between the individual songs. When I ripped the SGT. PEPPER songs off the CD and into my Winamp library, the songs that came after each other played continuously with no gaps, as they would on the CD.

That was the case between "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band (Reprise)" and "A Day in the Life," the last two tracks on the CD. I used Audacity to successfully shave off the last 31 seconds of "A Day in the Life" (because it consisted of this really freaky Beatles psychedelic sound loop that I could do without because it creeps me out). When I plugged my custom-edited "A Day in the Life" back in my Winamp playlist after "Sgt. Pepper...Reprise," however, there was a very brief, but noticeable 1/10 second (I estimate) gap between the end of the "Reprise" and "Day." That did not happen originally before I edited "Day."

Is there anything that can be done to fix this?

This is why I distrust using computers to do what stereo equipment once did. The computer has *way* too much control, and the user, too little.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Jonathan Bogart]

I don't know Audacity well, but the mp3 editors I use have different options for how you can save the file. There may be a "save gapless" option or something similar in the Audacity menus or settings.

But then, I'm the kind of person that the gap wouldn't bother.

[Spike-X]

Buried, did you also download and install the LAME MP3 encoder? (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3) If you didn't, it's possible that Audacity is using a different encoder that doesn't support gapless playback, or tht it's saving the edited file as something other than an MP3.

[mattx110]

OK. I've downloaded Audacity and it did what I wanted it to do, but now I've got a new problem.

If you know the Beatles' SGT. PEPPER album, you know that the songs flow into each other continuously with no gaps of silence between the individual songs. When I ripped the SGT. PEPPER songs off the CD and into my Winamp library, the songs that came after each other played continuously with no gaps, as they would on the CD.

That was the case between "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band (Reprise)" and "A Day in the Life," the last two tracks on the CD. I used Audacity to successfully shave off the last 31 seconds of "A Day in the Life" (because it consisted of this really freaky Beatles psychedelic sound loop that I could do without because it creeps me out). When I plugged my custom-edited "A Day in the Life" back in my Winamp playlist after "Sgt. Pepper...Reprise," however, there was a very brief, but noticeable 1/10 second (I estimate) gap between the end of the "Reprise" and "Day." That did not happen originally before I edited "Day."

Is there anything that can be done to fix this?

This is why I distrust using computers to do what stereo equipment once did. The computer has *way* too much control, and the user, too little.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Go buy a Jeff Beck album, where he plays the hell out of "A day in the life", without the creepy outro stuff.