[CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
I want to grab some sound bites out of several mp4 files, so I extracted the audio portion into wav files to make editing easier. After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer granularity than a full second. Are there any simple audio file editors that you can recommend? I'd like to find something more intuitive than audacity, but am not having much luck with my searches using yum and google. c ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: > I want to grab some sound bites out of several mp4 files, so I > extracted the audio portion into wav files to make editing easier. > > After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is > the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to > work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer > granularity than a full second. > > Are there any simple audio file editors that you can recommend? > I'd like to find something more intuitive than audacity, but am > not having much luck with my searches using yum and google. If you're only interested into cutting out part of the audio, ffmpeg can extract certain intervals and I think it has a finer granularity. HTH -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +, Nux! wrote: > On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: > > I want to grab some sound bites out of several mp4 files, so I > > extracted the audio portion into wav files to make editing easier. > > > > After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is > > the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to > > work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer > > granularity than a full second. I don't understand,... I can select very fine-grained selections in Audacity. You probably need to zoom in on the track so you can position the cursor properly, but once you've done so, you can select very precisely. > > Are there any simple audio file editors that you can recommend? > > I'd like to find something more intuitive than audacity, but am > > not having much luck with my searches using yum and google. > > If you're only interested into cutting out part of the audio, ffmpeg > can extract certain intervals and I think it has a finer granularity. > > HTH -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us // (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 Jude 1:24,25 - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
On 02/28/2013 09:38 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +, Nux! wrote: >> On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: >> After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is >> the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to >> work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer >> granularity than a full second. > I don't understand,... I can select very fine-grained selections in > Audacity. You probably need to zoom in on the track so you can position > the cursor properly, but once you've done so, you can select very > precisely. Yes, that's what I expected. But even after zooming in with the zoom tool to where I see hundreths of a second, I still cannot select less than a full second at a time. >>> Are there any simple audio file editors that you can recommend? >>> I'd like to find something more intuitive than audacity, but am >>> not having much luck with my searches using yum and google. >> If you're only interested into cutting out part of the audio, ffmpeg >> can extract certain intervals and I think it has a finer granularity. Nux, I was hoping to find a gui to do it all. For now I'll try using audacity to find the start/finish times and then ffmpeg to extract. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:24:12AM -0500, Carl T. Miller wrote: > On 02/28/2013 09:38 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +, Nux! wrote: > >> On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: > >> After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is > >> the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to > >> work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer > >> granularity than a full second. > > I don't understand,... I can select very fine-grained selections in > > Audacity. You probably need to zoom in on the track so you can position > > the cursor properly, but once you've done so, you can select very > > precisely. > > Yes, that's what I expected. But even after zooming in with > the zoom tool to where I see hundreths of a second, I still > cannot select less than a full second at a time. What I think you're saying is: if you place the cursor at a location that is, e.g., 1.43 seconds into the clip, right-click then drag (in either direction) until you've selected the part you want to cut, that Audacity moves the endpoints of you selection from where you put them to a whole-second point? because that's exactly what I've done manay times and it highlights the part over which I've dragged the cursor, and I can cut it by simply hitting the DEL key. Or are you trying to do it in some different way? I've placed a screenshot in my web space at: http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/Screenshot-korngold_01.png of an Audacity session with a selected region that neither begins nor ends on a 1-second bounary. With that selected, I could hit the DEL key and poof! it goes away. Note that at the bottom of the window it displays the begin and end points of the selection, so you can see what has been selected. This is Audacity 1.3.12 Beta from the epel repository. Is that the one you're using? Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. - Proverbs 15:3 (niv) - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
On 03/01/2013 07:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:24:12AM -0500, Carl T. Miller wrote: On 02/28/2013 09:38 AM, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +, Nux! wrote: On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer granularity than a full second. I don't understand,... I can select very fine-grained selections in Audacity. You probably need to zoom in on the track so you can position the cursor properly, but once you've done so, you can select very precisely. Yes, that's what I expected. But even after zooming in with the zoom tool to where I see hundreths of a second, I still cannot select less than a full second at a time. What I think you're saying is: if you place the cursor at a location that is, e.g., 1.43 seconds into the clip, right-click then drag (in either direction) until you've selected the part you want to cut, that Audacity moves the endpoints of you selection from where you put them to a whole-second point? because that's exactly what I've done manay times and it highlights the part over which I've dragged the cursor, and I can cut it by simply hitting the DEL key. Or are you trying to do it in some different way? I just wonder if this is an artifact from having started with an mp3 rather than a proper wave file? Just a thought. i.e. mp3 looses information compared to the 44KHz sample of most wav files, thus when it creates the reconstituted wav file it is not anywhere near the same, and thus probably interpolates much of the wav file. I've placed a screenshot in my web space at: http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/Screenshot-korngold_01.png of an Audacity session with a selected region that neither begins nor ends on a 1-second bounary. With that selected, I could hit the DEL key and poof! it goes away. Note that at the bottom of the window it displays the begin and end points of the selection, so you can see what has been selected. This is Audacity 1.3.12 Beta from the epel repository. Is that the one you're using? Fred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor
On 02/28/2013 08:15 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 03/01/2013 07:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >> What I think you're saying is: if you place the cursor at a location >> that is, e.g., 1.43 seconds into the clip, right-click then drag (in >> either direction) until you've selected the part you want to cut, that >> Audacity moves the endpoints of you selection from where you put them >> to a whole-second point? > > I just wonder if this is an artifact from having started with an mp3 > rather than a proper wave file? I finally figured out what the problem was. I started audacity at the shell prompt with the name of my wav file as a parameter. After doing more searching, I found that audacity will not allow edits to an original file. So I started audacity without any parameters, opened the wav file, and saved it as a project. I was then able to edit it. I just wish that audacity warned me that I was in readonly mode. Otherwise everything else about it was pretty intuitive. Thanks for all of the suggestions! c ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
