Making Song Samples

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 19 Apr 2001 7:27 am

I'd like a program that would make individual MP3 files of the first 30 seconds of every song on a CD. The only way I can do this now is very tedious (make a big WAV file, edit it, convert to MP3, delete the WAV). Any suggestions?

dlayne · Post by **dlayne** » 19 Apr 2001 7:36 am

b0b,I use a program called MP3STER,you might want to check it out,it can convert mp3's to wave and vice-versa and also works with midi and you have complete control.

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 19 Apr 2001 2:05 pm

I can't find anything named MP3STER. Where did you get it?

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 19 Apr 2001 2:16 pm

I use GoldWave. It is a multipurpose audio program for recording from the line input, editing, EQ, compress, etc, but one of the things you can do is make clips from songs. The samples of songs from my CD that I have on my web page were done with Goldwave. I took the first part of each song and then, with GoldWave added a fade out at the end. Goldwave will save as either a wav or MP3.
You can download a fully functional trial version at www.goldwave.com

Fred Murphy · Post by **Fred Murphy** » 19 Apr 2001 4:02 pm

Jack's right. The Goldwave program makes it easy. You can select any portion of the song, click left side of mouse at the point you want to start, and then click the right mouse button at the place you wish to stop, and it is done.

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 19 Apr 2001 7:47 pm

Cooledit2000 is a great program for doing mp3's up. I did the sound clips from Jim Cohens CD up for him using this program. You can save it directly as an mp3 or as a wav or both. Can also add silence to the beginning of the clip or fade-in or out.
Also, all the clips on the Rebel™ and Ricky site were done on this program before being encoded to Real Audio.

I have tried most all the music editing programs and this one is far and away the best of all of them. As a matter of fact, I registered this one!!

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 19 Apr 2001 9:14 pm

Maybe I wasn't clear. I want to automate the process. Ideally, I'd like to just insert a CD, point and click and have it spit out a dozen 30-second sample MP3 clips.

I want to bypass the WAV editing step, at least. It's very time-consuming to generate a WAV, edit it, and then generate an MP3. I want a program that will just rip the first 30 seconds of a song directly from CD into an MP3 file.

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 20 Apr 2001 3:42 am

b0b, I looked at my Audiograbber and it has an option to only rip x number of seconds from CD's. It will rip to MP3 or WAV's (MP3 as long as you have an MP3 conversion program such as lame or similar).

Audiograbber is what I'm using for ripping. I tried several of the programs available and like this one the best. Basically all it does is rip, it's not an all encompassing audio program like some that are out there so what it does, it does well.

Here's the corrected link www.audiograbber.com-us.net [This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 20 April 2001 at 09:50 AM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 20 Apr 2001 7:28 am

That sounds like what I'm looking for, Jack. But the link didn't work. I'll try it again later.

You wrote:

It will rip to MP3 or WAV's (MP3 as long as you have an MP3 conversion program such as lame or similar).

I didn't understand the "lame" reference. I've been using Cakewalk Pyro to convert WAVs and CD tracks to MP3. Would I still have to go through a WAV step?

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 20 Apr 2001 8:52 am

There's a reference on their web site to the MP3 encoders. You just have to have one, such as the lame, in the directory for Audiograbber. Then you can specify MP3 or wav and the program will save the files in the format you want.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 20 Apr 2001 11:42 am

That's exactly what I needed Jack. I tried it and it's great! Thanks a lot.

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 20 Apr 2001 5:27 pm

bob:
I for one misunderstood what you were looking for. I have a full blown version of audiograbber but don't use it. While it works extremely well, as Jack says, it is not an all encompassing audio program and I found I still had to bring material up in Cooledit to add silence, fade-in or out etc. I find it just as fast to record a steel clip, edit it the way I want and then just save it once as a wav file to encode it to Real Audio. I then delete the wav file.
If you plan on adding sound clips of the various cd's you have for sale to the web site, Audiograbber is for you, the best bet, and by far the fastest.

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