Audio Editing

[Planet Dave]

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

[Dark]

Clicky.

[Big Si]

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

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 )

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

[Obviousman]

Sygate personal firewall sadly ceased to be with the take-over by Symantec though

[Pat]

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

I forgot all about that. PM on it's way.

[davedecay]

Audacity works on Windoze
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

and Mac.

[Planet Dave]

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

[Big Si]

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

And I thank him - Troozaluss Carprayshun

[EvilBastard]

I Love Big Si, And His Friend, The Troozaluss Carprayshun. If only I had a womb, I would be honoured if he would allow me to bear his children

[sultan2075]

For the PC users among you, here's some Goon Love: http://shsc.info/UsefulWindowsSoftware

[Karst]

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?

If you need a hand give me a shout through a PM.

[Planet Dave]

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.