I would like to bring a 5 min demo CD this year to play my speakers, but have not burned a disc in years and have never “edited” music together before.
Ben, if you read this, please slot me in somewhere on Saturday.
What is everyone using for an original source of music you can legit download hi res from without signing up for a year, preferably even just buying single song downloads at a time?
What software you using to edit the songs together with pauses between snippets?
And finally what to use to burn the final file to disc with?
Don’t make me feel to old or dumb with your answers please.
For taking snips and editing music, joining, inserting silence between tracks use Audacity. Ben also has an option of connecting via bluetooth, so you cna have your tracks on your phone and connect via bluetooth. JR had a guide somewhere here. a lot of youtube tutorials are also there.
If you have a CD burner and want to just burn music on it, Windows has a default option. You should be albe to do it through the file explorer, tutorials exists for it.
I’d agree youtube is not a great option. I do alot of listening on youtube and find there is likely some compression and maybe even trimming of the frequency extremities. Listening to the same song on CD seems more dynamic and more authoritative bass.
When recording with Audacity from YouTube , I find that I need to reduce the volume on YouTube to about half, otherwise Audacity keeps going into the red. The recording level control on Audacity doesn’t seem to do much. However, as noted, the sound quality from YouTube isn’t great: I’d be inclined to buy the tracks from iTunes, convert to WAV and then edit with Audacity.
The waveform makes editing easy, for example, you can expand a section of a track by pressing CTRL + 1. Cutting, copying and and pasting is pretty straightforward.
I’ll see if I still have thee copy of my tutorial floating around. If I do, I can post it. It is a little dated, Audacity changed their UI a little bit since the version I was using when I wrote it, but it isn’t anything too major.
Clipgrab is an app for Mac OS that will grab audio from YouTube videos. Be sure to check first that that the video is at least 1080p or you might be disappointed in the result. From the result you will go to Audacity.
Nero SoundTrax is pretty darn good. You could use a combo of Nero Wave Editor and SoundTrax. You could edit the tracks in Nero Wave Editor and stack them in SoundTrax.
