Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut
Hello Jeff and list: Thanks for attempting to help me go directly to a certain spot in a file, using MP3 Direct Cut! However I must be dense (or maybe Jaws 14 works differently with this program) but I see no way to get from one line to another! In other words, it says something like "630.00" (then it says "Now"..then gives the number! But there seems to be no way to get Jaws to get on the number I want! I hope I've explained this clearly enough! In an effort to not tie up the list with this, if you'd rather contact me offlist, you may do so; email is tomca...@comcast.net Thanks, Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: "Jeff Samco" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 7:24 PM Subject: Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut Hi, Tom, I'll take a stab at what you might do different. Control-P brings up the edit box with the time info in it. The first number is the total length of the file shown in minutes, seconds and fractions of a second. Hours would be shown if necessary. The second number is the current position also listed in minutes, seconds and fractions of seconds. It is the current time that you need to edit. Be careful not to remove the punctuation marks like apostrophe which delineate the minutes from second, etc. After editing, press Enter to jump to the new time location. HTH, Jeff At 11:52 AM 5/31/2013, you wrote: Am replying to an older post; I saw where it was possible to go directly to a certain part in a file with MP3 Direct Cut. If I understood the instructions correctly, one types in the number of where you want to be in the file; then presses "enter"..I did this..but it did nothing! Am I leaving out something? Does this work differently with Windows XP than it does with 7? Like I said, I thought I had followed the instructions that were given in order to accomplish this, but no soap! I did see the length of the file and where I was, but when I typed in the number of where I wanted to be, nothing happened! So maybe there's a problem with how I typed in the value or something? Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: "Jeff Samco" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut Hi, Kevin, I wrote up these instructions for using MP3 DirectCut a year or more ago. I think it will answer most if not all of your questions. If something isn't answered, just email me about it. HTH, Jeff MP3 Direct Cut is a free direct mp3 editor, splitter, cutter and recorder. Download it from http://www.mpesch3.de Here are some notes for keyboard shortcuts for basic operation of this program: Play and Stop by using the SpaceBar. During playback, the F8 key will increase playback speed and F7 will decrease it. Rewind and fast forward using cursor left and right or page-up and page-down. The latter two keys move in larger increments than the first two. The number of frames each pair moves can be set via the configuration menu. The Home key moves to the beginning of the file. The End key moves to the end. One can move to a specific location in a file by time. Use Ctrl-P to bring up an editable text box showing the total time of the file and the current time location. Edit the current time location to where you wish to move, then press Enter. How to mark beginning and end points of a selection for deletion, saving as a separte file, etc: While playback is stopped, Use the letter b to mark the beginning of a selection Use the letter n to mark the end of a selection When beginning and end points are set, use the Up-arrow and Down-arrow keys to jumpt to each respectively. The following commands use the numbers row above the letter keys, not the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard. These commands move by frame. One frame is roughly a 38th of a second: 1: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the left 2: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the right 3: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the left 4: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the right With the following keys, one can exactly hear, where the margins of a selection are: F5: Plays the two seconds before the beginning mark of a selection F6: Plays the first two seconds of a selection F7: Plays the last two seconds of a selection F8: Plays the two seconds after the end mark of a selection F9: Plays a portion of the file around the selection as if the selection had been deleted To remove a selection one can press the delete key. This does not touch the MP3 file. It just modifies an MP3DirectCut index. Therefore, deletes and cuts are made quickly. There are also menu options and shortcut keys to save a selection into a different file. For instance, Ctrl-E wil
Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut
Hi, Tom, I'll take a stab at what you might do different. Control-P brings up the edit box with the time info in it. The first number is the total length of the file shown in minutes, seconds and fractions of a second. Hours would be shown if necessary. The second number is the current position also listed in minutes, seconds and fractions of seconds. It is the current time that you need to edit. Be careful not to remove the punctuation marks like apostrophe which delineate the minutes from second, etc. After editing, press Enter to jump to the new time location. HTH, Jeff At 11:52 AM 5/31/2013, you wrote: Am replying to an older post; I saw where it was possible to go directly to a certain part in a file with MP3 Direct Cut. If I understood the instructions correctly, one types in the number of where you want to be in the file; then presses "enter"..I did this..but it did nothing! Am I leaving out something? Does this work differently with Windows XP than it does with 7? Like I said, I thought I had followed the instructions that were given in order to accomplish this, but no soap! I did see the length of the file and where I was, but when I typed in the number of where I wanted to be, nothing happened! So maybe there's a problem with how I typed in the value or something? Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: "Jeff Samco" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut Hi, Kevin, I wrote up these instructions for using MP3 DirectCut a year or more ago. I think it will answer most if not all of your questions. If something isn't answered, just email me about it. HTH, Jeff MP3 Direct Cut is a free direct mp3 editor, splitter, cutter and recorder. Download it from http://www.mpesch3.de Here are some notes for keyboard shortcuts for basic operation of this program: Play and Stop by using the SpaceBar. During playback, the F8 key will increase playback speed and F7 will decrease it. Rewind and fast forward using cursor left and right or page-up and page-down. The latter two keys move in larger increments than the first two. The number of frames each pair moves can be set via the configuration menu. The Home key moves to the beginning of the file. The End key moves to the end. One can move to a specific location in a file by time. Use Ctrl-P to bring up an editable text box showing the total time of the file and the current time location. Edit the current time location to where you wish to move, then press Enter. How to mark beginning and end points of a selection for deletion, saving as a separte file, etc: While playback is stopped, Use the letter b to mark the beginning of a selection Use the letter n to mark the end of a selection When beginning and end points are set, use the Up-arrow and Down-arrow keys to jumpt to each respectively. The following commands use the numbers row above the letter keys, not the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard. These commands move by frame. One frame is roughly a 38th of a second: 1: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the left 2: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the right 3: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the left 4: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the right With the following keys, one can exactly hear, where the margins of a selection are: F5: Plays the two seconds before the beginning mark of a selection F6: Plays the first two seconds of a selection F7: Plays the last two seconds of a selection F8: Plays the two seconds after the end mark of a selection F9: Plays a portion of the file around the selection as if the selection had been deleted To remove a selection one can press the delete key. This does not touch the MP3 file. It just modifies an MP3DirectCut index. Therefore, deletes and cuts are made quickly. There are also menu options and shortcut keys to save a selection into a different file. For instance, Ctrl-E will save the selection with the opportunity to choose its own filename. and Ctrl-W will save the entire audio using the current name or edit it to something different. To split an MP3 file, which consists of a complete album, one can use the pause detection feature, which can be reached via the menu system. It will set a marker before each song. These markers are actually selections with a length of zero. To check the markers, one can go from one to the other with Control cursor right and Control cursor left. The file can then be split according to the markers. Or one can save a cue sheet file or an MP3 DirectCut project file. Both would contain the markers. With these marker files, one can easily find certain positions in an MP3 file. To go to a specific time position within the audio file, use Control-p. The displayed edit box is a bit odd. D
Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut
Am replying to an older post; I saw where it was possible to go directly to a certain part in a file with MP3 Direct Cut. If I understood the instructions correctly, one types in the number of where you want to be in the file; then presses "enter"..I did this..but it did nothing! Am I leaving out something? Does this work differently with Windows XP than it does with 7? Like I said, I thought I had followed the instructions that were given in order to accomplish this, but no soap! I did see the length of the file and where I was, but when I typed in the number of where I wanted to be, nothing happened! So maybe there's a problem with how I typed in the value or something? Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: "Jeff Samco" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut Hi, Kevin, I wrote up these instructions for using MP3 DirectCut a year or more ago. I think it will answer most if not all of your questions. If something isn't answered, just email me about it. HTH, Jeff MP3 Direct Cut is a free direct mp3 editor, splitter, cutter and recorder. Download it from http://www.mpesch3.de Here are some notes for keyboard shortcuts for basic operation of this program: Play and Stop by using the SpaceBar. During playback, the F8 key will increase playback speed and F7 will decrease it. Rewind and fast forward using cursor left and right or page-up and page-down. The latter two keys move in larger increments than the first two. The number of frames each pair moves can be set via the configuration menu. The Home key moves to the beginning of the file. The End key moves to the end. One can move to a specific location in a file by time. Use Ctrl-P to bring up an editable text box showing the total time of the file and the current time location. Edit the current time location to where you wish to move, then press Enter. How to mark beginning and end points of a selection for deletion, saving as a separte file, etc: While playback is stopped, Use the letter b to mark the beginning of a selection Use the letter n to mark the end of a selection When beginning and end points are set, use the Up-arrow and Down-arrow keys to jumpt to each respectively. The following commands use the numbers row above the letter keys, not the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard. These commands move by frame. One frame is roughly a 38th of a second: 1: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the left 2: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the right 3: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the left 4: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the right With the following keys, one can exactly hear, where the margins of a selection are: F5: Plays the two seconds before the beginning mark of a selection F6: Plays the first two seconds of a selection F7: Plays the last two seconds of a selection F8: Plays the two seconds after the end mark of a selection F9: Plays a portion of the file around the selection as if the selection had been deleted To remove a selection one can press the delete key. This does not touch the MP3 file. It just modifies an MP3DirectCut index. Therefore, deletes and cuts are made quickly. There are also menu options and shortcut keys to save a selection into a different file. For instance, Ctrl-E will save the selection with the opportunity to choose its own filename. and Ctrl-W will save the entire audio using the current name or edit it to something different. To split an MP3 file, which consists of a complete album, one can use the pause detection feature, which can be reached via the menu system. It will set a marker before each song. These markers are actually selections with a length of zero. To check the markers, one can go from one to the other with Control cursor right and Control cursor left. The file can then be split according to the markers. Or one can save a cue sheet file or an MP3 DirectCut project file. Both would contain the markers. With these marker files, one can easily find certain positions in an MP3 file. To go to a specific time position within the audio file, use Control-p. The displayed edit box is a bit odd. Don't delete the words in it, just modify the numbers for the current file position. One has to leave in place the apostrophes, which separate hours minutes and seconds. The program needs these apostrophes Then, there are the recording shortcuts. r: Opens the record dialog, in which sighted people can adjust the recording level p: Starts the recording, when the recording dialog is open s: Stops the recording. At 02:22 AM 5/12/2013, you wrote: Hi. I have this program, and I'm not understanding how to split a file into several files. I understand you mark the beginning of the part you want to wo
Re: Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut
Hi, Kevin, I wrote up these instructions for using MP3 DirectCut a year or more ago. I think it will answer most if not all of your questions. If something isn't answered, just email me about it. HTH, Jeff MP3 Direct Cut is a free direct mp3 editor, splitter, cutter and recorder. Download it from http://www.mpesch3.de Here are some notes for keyboard shortcuts for basic operation of this program: Play and Stop by using the SpaceBar. During playback, the F8 key will increase playback speed and F7 will decrease it. Rewind and fast forward using cursor left and right or page-up and page-down. The latter two keys move in larger increments than the first two. The number of frames each pair moves can be set via the configuration menu. The Home key moves to the beginning of the file. The End key moves to the end. One can move to a specific location in a file by time. Use Ctrl-P to bring up an editable text box showing the total time of the file and the current time location. Edit the current time location to where you wish to move, then press Enter. How to mark beginning and end points of a selection for deletion, saving as a separte file, etc: While playback is stopped, Use the letter b to mark the beginning of a selection Use the letter n to mark the end of a selection When beginning and end points are set, use the Up-arrow and Down-arrow keys to jumpt to each respectively. The following commands use the numbers row above the letter keys, not the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard. These commands move by frame. One frame is roughly a 38th of a second: 1: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the left 2: Move the beginning mark of a selection one frame to the right 3: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the left 4: Move the end mark of a selection one frame to the right With the following keys, one can exactly hear, where the margins of a selection are: F5: Plays the two seconds before the beginning mark of a selection F6: Plays the first two seconds of a selection F7: Plays the last two seconds of a selection F8: Plays the two seconds after the end mark of a selection F9: Plays a portion of the file around the selection as if the selection had been deleted To remove a selection one can press the delete key. This does not touch the MP3 file. It just modifies an MP3DirectCut index. Therefore, deletes and cuts are made quickly. There are also menu options and shortcut keys to save a selection into a different file. For instance, Ctrl-E will save the selection with the opportunity to choose its own filename. and Ctrl-W will save the entire audio using the current name or edit it to something different. To split an MP3 file, which consists of a complete album, one can use the pause detection feature, which can be reached via the menu system. It will set a marker before each song. These markers are actually selections with a length of zero. To check the markers, one can go from one to the other with Control cursor right and Control cursor left. The file can then be split according to the markers. Or one can save a cue sheet file or an MP3 DirectCut project file. Both would contain the markers. With these marker files, one can easily find certain positions in an MP3 file. To go to a specific time position within the audio file, use Control-p. The displayed edit box is a bit odd. Don't delete the words in it, just modify the numbers for the current file position. One has to leave in place the apostrophes, which separate hours minutes and seconds. The program needs these apostrophes Then, there are the recording shortcuts. r: Opens the record dialog, in which sighted people can adjust the recording level p: Starts the recording, when the recording dialog is open s: Stops the recording. At 02:22 AM 5/12/2013, you wrote: Hi. I have this program, and I'm not understanding how to split a file into several files. I understand you mark the beginning of the part you want to work with by pressing the B key, and marking the end with the N key, but I'm puzzled after that. I understand how to delete the part you've selected, but I have no idea how to split it from the original file to save as its own part. Speaking of marking a file, I have two other questions. First, how do you mark a file from the beginning to a certain point, or from a specific place to the end. As an example, I have a track that has about a second of the next track in it. I want to get rid of this portion of the file. What do I do in Direct Cut to accomplish this. My second question is related. How do I move the beginning and end markers to exactly mark the part of a file that I want to work with? Let's say I don't exactly have the part of a file I want to delete. How do I fix this? I just thought of a third question. How do you get mp3 Direct cut to start from the beginning of what's selected, or the beginning of a file, for that matter. Right now if I
Several questions regarding manipulating a file in mp3 Direct Cut
Hi. I have this program, and I'm not understanding how to split a file into several files. I understand you mark the beginning of the part you want to work with by pressing the B key, and marking the end with the N key, but I'm puzzled after that. I understand how to delete the part you've selected, but I have no idea how to split it from the original file to save as its own part. Speaking of marking a file, I have two other questions. First, how do you mark a file from the beginning to a certain point, or from a specific place to the end. As an example, I have a track that has about a second of the next track in it. I want to get rid of this portion of the file. What do I do in Direct Cut to accomplish this. My second question is related. How do I move the beginning and end markers to exactly mark the part of a file that I want to work with? Let's say I don't exactly have the part of a file I want to delete. How do I fix this? I just thought of a third question. How do you get mp3 Direct cut to start from the beginning of what's selected, or the beginning of a file, for that matter. Right now if I press space it starts playing at the beginning of the file. If I hit SPACE again it pauses the file, and when I hit it again the file starts playing from where it was paused. Is there either a way to play from the beginning, or better yet is there a way to enter the time where you want to start playing something? One final question. How do I get Direct Cut to play what has been selected? As an example, I have a track with extra stuff in it that I want to get rid of. How do I play just the selected part so I can adjust the beginning and end to get rid of it? I know that's a lot of questions, and I've looked at the manual, but I didn't see my answers, or I don't understand. Thanks in advance for the help. Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
