Edit an mp3?

Im wondering if its possible to cut time off the begginning of an mp3? Can iTunes do this?

You can try Audacity - it's an Open Source editor that handles mp3 files as well.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
hth

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I wish to edit an mp3 music file so that I can drop a piece of it into an iMovie project. iMovie's audio tools are very rudimentary---one can reposition a music file, shorten it, etc but cannot pick a piece of it to complement a movie segment.
So I dropped the mp3 file into GarageBand. I deleted the first section of the song, then selected the 16 second piece I wanted to include in my iMovie, using the copy command. Then I pasted the piece into a new GarageBand project screen. The piece wouldn't play, and when I selected "export" the piece neatly went to where I wanted it, but again with no sound.
So simply: how do I edit an mp3 file (cutting a piece of it) and then save it so I can apply it to an iMovie? Help!
John

john Nall wrote:
The piece wouldn't play, and when I selected "export" the piece neatly went to where I wanted it, but again with no sound.
it should have played, but you can do it easier by exporting just the section you want:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportsections
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Editing some mp3's for my ipod gaps arent retaining

Hi there first post here
ok so i got an ipod touch the other day and i have to say that the audio quality is AWFUL!! its all mids and highs narrow and no bass at all and if you try to use the EQ on the ipod itself it gets even worse. but i came up with a solution. by custom EQ editing my mp3's in adobe Audition i was able to get them to sound AMAZINGLY good im actually pretty proud of myself being a total N00b at this stuff. but when i export them out to mp3 the gaps are longer so there is a slight hickup between songs.
is there a way to fix this?
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as Ozpeter mentions, the nature of how mp3 files are created can create gaps at the top and tail of the file. The data is saved into blocks of equal size. if you run out of data after a new block has been created, the remainder is filled with silence.
An example would be you have a pitcher of water representing the audio data, and a stack of paper cups to pour it into. as you get to the bottom of the pitcher, you may only fill the final cup part of the way, but you still have to deal with the remainder of the cup.
Of course, once you open that MP3 file, the silence is there at the end. once saved as a new mp3, new silence can be added making the "gap" seem longer than before.
My apologies for the analogy. I'm coming down with a cold.
Durin

I want to edit an mp3. What software can I use?

I would like to edit an mp3. What software can I use?

Try Audacity, a free audio multi-track recorder/editor.

What is Simplest Way to Edit an MP3 File?

I have an MP3 file of an audio stream that I recorded using Audio Hijack Pro. I have a section at the beginning that I simply want to delete completely. And I also want to break up the big MP3 into three or four individual files. What's the simplest app to use to do this? Thanks.
Steve M.

Well, I use DP for most of my own projects, and that (I assume along with most other DAWs these days) now allows you to directly import/edit/export MP3 data. And I used to buy 'Pro' keys for Quicktime which would then allow you to lift out selections, from any file type that QT could handle, and create a new file from that; I arrived at that solution to accomplish precisely what you're concerned with, after having tried out the various OS9/OSX freeware/shareware audio editors that wwere around at the time - if Fission had been available then in the same price range, think I'd have bought that. And I've got a couple of Windoze Freeware equivalents to Fission on my XP machines.
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Hi, I dragged and Dropped and Mp3 File in a Track, and I want to edit/cut some sections of it. How do I acheive this?

ichouinard wrote:
I want to edit/cut some sections of it. How do I acheive this?
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#cutsection
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An idea to edit my MP3s... Need some guidance

I know I know and I already searched the topic extensively... But maybe I'm googling the wrong stuff. Anywho, here we go.
I want to create a small app (no gui) that runs through my MP3 directory and takes each file name (i.e. artist name - song title.mp3) and sets the "ARTIST" and "SONG TITLE" id3 tags according to the filename and clear out any of the other fields. I just hate having all my songs on my MP3 player not displaying correctly. I have too many to do it individually so I figured I could wing it myself.
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- App will cycle through a specified directory.
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- Based on the tokenizing take what is before the - (dash) and put that in the "ARTIST" field in the id3 tag. Then what is after the - (dash) put in the "SONG TITLE" field in the id3 tag. Naturally I will cut off the .mp3 extension.
So really I need to know how to do 2 things and I searched for the first one. I need to learn how to cycle through a directory and grab each file and handle it somehow. I can probably manage that, but cycling is the problem. I googled this and came up short handed.
The second thing is I need to know how to edit and alter the id3 tags in an MP3. I'm sure I can figure this out eventually. Since its much later in my application I haven't yet looked around yet on this. I'm not asking for help on this but if you know of a valuable resource for some references on how to tackle this please inform me.
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To get the file names, look into the methods of the File class. Some provide arrays as output.
To split/parse the file names, use methods from the String class.
This site has numerous examples, some probably apply:
http://javaalmanac.com/

How can I edit my mp3 tag information?

A few weeks ago we started our first podcast, Your RV Podcast. We've been learning as we go, and "duh," discovered we've been doing our mp3 tags incorrectly. How can I go in and edit my episode mp3 tag info? When I bring the episode up, click on "file" and get the drop down menu, the field for "Get Info" is gray, and I can't even access the info. Thanks for your help!

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I'm trying to edit an mp3 from iTunes in Garage Band 10.0.1.

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Command T to split region at playhead.
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Following an exhaustive search of the archives, I must appeal to the greater wisdom of others (risking both your contempt and equally troublesome unresponsiveness) in order to resolve the dilemma experienced while attempting to use GB to make ringtones from an Mp3.
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Can anyone tell me how I edit and rename the files all ready on my Zen Micro? For instance: I have 3 folders named "2Pac", "2 Pac" and "Tupac" and would like to put them all together under one name.
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Thanks for the tip Baldbear, that should work.
So I guess it is no way of editing the files when they are all ready on the player.
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Hi Ingo,
Not sure that you read my entire entry. I want to edit the mp3 files BEFORE importing them into iTunes. I have dozens of albums & songs that are missing tons of info like title, artist, track #, etc, or the mp3 files have info in them that I don't want. I'd prefer to edit them & clean them all up first before importing them all into iTunes because they will just have blank boxes & they will all be grouped together at the bottom of my iTunes window, & I won't know which file is which. Right now they're in seperate folders, so I know which artist & album they are. maybe there's a way to do this in iTunes, but from my experience, I've always had trouble knowing which file is with which artist / album when I import several albums missing key info. That's why I like to add it before importing. I guess I could just import 1 album at a time, but that seems very time consuming. Let me know what you think.

Edit MP3 Information by tabbing to next field

Hi everyone. I recentely updated my iTunes to the latest version (10.4) on Snow Leopard. After the update I have lost the ability to tab through the various fields while editing a MP3 in list view. For example, when I click to edit the song Name, in previous versions I was able to hit tab to jump to the Artist field, then tab again to Album, etc.
With the current version I am unable to do so. Is there anyway to bring this functionality back or downgrade back to iTunes 10.3? Any help would be appreciated.

Same issue on Lion: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15773707#15773707
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What mac app will allow "direct editing" of an mp3 w/o recompressing?

the issue is that I'm using a low quality (poor mic) low resolution file (32kbps--which for lectures is doable) and need to edit it significantly. i have previously tried soundtrack pro 2, converting it to aif, editing, tried some processing to see if I could improve listenability, with some success... but when it is compressed back to mp3 at a reasonable resolution for download(these clips are 45mins plus in length), it introduces a lot of unwanted noise. even with all processing removed, leaving me with the original upconverted/edited file to recompress, I'm still unhappy with the results. so I figured I should find a program that would allow me to directly edit the mp3 file and then save out the changes. after googling, I thought Audacity might do this, but no advantage over STP.
apparently, windows has mp3cut and linux has WINE... if there a mac equivalent.

i'm short on time, but basically the problem is not that simple. converting a low quality/low resolution to AIFF will give you the same quality of sound as the original low quality file. once you begin editing the file it will require recompression to go back to mp3. recompression can retain the same listening quality provided you keep the resolution high enough, which then results in a much larger file. these files are long (45+ mins each) which make them larger than wanted. by being able to edit the mp3 directly, it doesn't require recompression, it simply removes the unwanted data and keeps the unedited data the same. it would be like using an mp3 splitter application, only you are making many edits. i can see this as doable and mp3trimmer might work if i can get it to show the waveform large enough to do the edits. I'm told there is a PC version which i am going to try, just to see if it will do the editing that i need to do, in which case I will be loading windows on my machine.

Editing mp3 details in windows 8

good morning
I want to edit my mp3 file details,but there is nothing to change except renaming that file.Like I need to change the Title of that mp3 File.So please let me know how to do that.
Thank You

Hi Bilal Federer,
Please follow the steps bellow to edit the details of mp3 files:
Right-click the mp3 file which you want to edit details, click
Properties.
Select the Details tab, click the value of the metadata you want to edit, and then you can edit the metadata.
Click OK.
What’s more, please set the permission of the folder:
Right-click on the folder where your music files are kept, and then click
Properties.
Click the Security tab.
Under the Group or user names section, click Edit… to change permission.
Please make sure your account has full control.
Click OK twice.
Regards,
Lany Zhang

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