Evening techie dudes,
can anyone recommend a decent (ie freeware and simple to use ) audio editor? I've recently, thanks to the mighty Pat (maybe I should just ask him) ripped the audio from some bootleg dvds. Thing is, the program saves the audio as one track, which usually then needs 'chopping' in order to get it on two disks.
Any ideas? Ta in advance
Audio Editing
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Troozaluss Carprayshun posted this sometime back in November 2004, I can't find the thread, but I copied and pasted it into a PM to myself (yep Big Si's mad mental )Planet Dave wrote:Evening techie dudes,
can anyone recommend a decent (ie freeware and simple to use ) audio editor? I've recently, thanks to the mighty Pat (maybe I should just ask him) ripped the audio from some bootleg dvds. Thing is, the program saves the audio as one track, which usually then needs 'chopping' in order to get it on two disks.
Any ideas? Ta in advance
Since people seem to be asking regularly about various bits of freeware, here's a list I had handly (all freeware, not shareware). I haven't included spyware blockers/cleaners because I think all the good ones have been mentioned above.
3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Anti-Virus:
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
Audio Tools:
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
EAC - www.exactaudiocopy.de
CD/DVD Burning:
CDBurnerXP - http://w1.878.telia.com/~u87812405/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Download managers:
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
File Managers:
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/
File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/c ... wnload.jsp
FTP Clients:
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
Image viewers:
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Mail programs:
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Network Tools:
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org
Office Suite:
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Partition Managers:
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
PDF Makers:
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
Photo manipulation and image design:
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pop-up Blockers:
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Video players:
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=82303
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Video tools:
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html
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I forgot all about that. PM on it's way.Planet Dave wrote:Evening techie dudes,
can anyone recommend a decent (ie freeware and simple to use ) audio editor? I've recently, thanks to the mighty Pat (maybe I should just ask him) ripped the audio from some bootleg dvds. Thing is, the program saves the audio as one track, which usually then needs 'chopping' in order to get it on two disks.
Any ideas? Ta in advance
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Cheers peeps. Especially Big Si - nice list matey.
I've d/led audacity, but I'm having bother with it, presumably because I'm being a spaz. I'll have another look.
Thanks again,
Ravey
I've d/led audacity, but I'm having bother with it, presumably because I'm being a spaz. I'll have another look.
Thanks again,
Ravey
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And I thank him - Troozaluss CarprayshunPlanet Dave wrote:Cheers peeps. Especially Big Si - nice list matey.
I've d/led audacity, but I'm having bother with it, presumably because I'm being a spaz. I'll have another look.
Thanks again,
Ravey
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Audacity is ok - but it is quite limited. Make sure you have your settings right. I'm also wonder how you did the audio-capture from the DVD. Was that recorded through an internal soundcard?
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No high-end technical jiggery pokery Karst, I've neither the time nor the inclination. The soundtracks journey is -
ancient video tape - Spiggys VHS to DVD conversion (god knows what he uses, though I suspect 'magick' - AVS Convertor 4 to extract the audio - Audacity to chop it (roughly) if required.
So what 'settings' would you recommend for audacity?
The cds I've produced so far (Leysin 93, Bremen 92) are certainly listenable, particularly given a) their origin on ropey VHS, and b) they aren't the best recordings ever in the first place.
When I can afford it, I'd certainly consider them weedable, but maybe someone would want a crack at cleaning them up a tad first.
ancient video tape - Spiggys VHS to DVD conversion (god knows what he uses, though I suspect 'magick' - AVS Convertor 4 to extract the audio - Audacity to chop it (roughly) if required.
So what 'settings' would you recommend for audacity?
The cds I've produced so far (Leysin 93, Bremen 92) are certainly listenable, particularly given a) their origin on ropey VHS, and b) they aren't the best recordings ever in the first place.
When I can afford it, I'd certainly consider them weedable, but maybe someone would want a crack at cleaning them up a tad first.
'Fragged another moaning sh1tbag'