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Splitting a wav ( for an old goat )
Mandoborg:
Hey folks, I'm probably in waaaaay over my head but thought I'd ask anyway ! I'm an old school dinosaur analog taper that just bought a cheap Zoom H2N to mess around with. I recorded a couple shows last week and be damned if this little thing doesn't sound pretty damn good !! Nice not having to worry about cassette flips on the old D6 for sure ! But now I just have several long wav's of an hour +. A co-worker told me about Audacity, I loaded it, and for a 56 year old hippy, it just looks like Greek to me ! I can barely email !! Is there a program for dummies that is stupid simple to somehow put index points ( for lack of a better term ) so that I can burn these shows to cd ???
Thanks from an old goat !!!!
Jim
admkrk:
CDWave is by far the easiest way to split wav files. It is no longer being developed, but works at least to Win 10.
http://www.milosoftware.com/en/index.php?body=cdwave.php
That will not get you fade in or outs though. For that you will need some kind of editor, like Audacity, or a DAW, like Reaper. I find Reaper simple, but it did take me a while to figure out how much of it I could ignore starting out. I was working on a project with 6 tracks and over 12 hrs long the other day, a whole day at a festival. I can easily render out the parts I want and even send clips to Rx and back with a couple clicks. Audacity is popular and plenty here can give you tips for starting out. It is probably less overwhelming than Reaper at first.
loughney:
--- Quote from: admkrk on November 13, 2023, 08:43:13 PM ---CDWave is by far the easiest way to split wav files. It is no longer being developed, but works at least to Win 10.
http://www.milosoftware.com/en/index.php?body=cdwave.php
That will not get you fade in or outs though. For that you will need some kind of editor, like Audacity, or a DAW, like Reaper. I find Reaper simple, but it did take me a while to figure out how much of it I could ignore starting out. I was working on a project with 6 tracks and over 12 hrs long the other day, a whole day at a festival. I can easily render out the parts I want and even send clips to Rx and back with a couple clicks. Audacity is popular and plenty here can give you tips for starting out. It is probably less overwhelming than Reaper at first.
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I second CDWAVE for splitting. It is fast and easy to split. It even has an autosplit feature that will suggest where to split. You can also then save your split WAV files as FLAC files as well.
Mandoborg:
Thank you for the recommendation on cdwav ! I just installed it and it looks a lot simpler !! However, and I'm going to feel stupid asking this, but it doesn't allow me to import audio off a thumb drive ?? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but all i see is importing wav files off a cd. I took the files off the Zoom and dropped them on a thumb drive.... This program looks waaay simpler than audacity to me. There's hope for an old goat after all !!! :lol:
admkrk:
Just drag and drop.
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