The chief culprit is when I inhale forīreath often that can be heard in the recording. That's part of phrasing (ie, whatever is selected is replaced with the Part of that is using the "silence transform" in Cool Edit to blank outĪmbient noises during gaps when I don't want to change the timing The end of a word after removing a single syllable or sound.Īs a recovering perfectionist, I wish you hadn't said that (:-)įor I already spend what seems like too much time and effort tweaking Peter Why wrote: I *do* tend to use Audacity's fade in and out, and it's surprisinglyĮffective, when I'm making very minor edits, for example, to soften The installer for Cool Edit 2000 is 8.2 MB and 2.1 MB for Audacity. The installer is 162 KB (much of that is the filesįor the GUI language support) and the executable 51 KB. mp3DirectCut requires its programĮxecutable and the file lame_enc.dll be in the same folder/directory. Including for recording, as described in the user manual.įor recording, it needs the LAME encoder (just like Audacity needs itįor exporting to MP3 format). There is some one-time configuration necessary for program operation, OS: Windows (9x/NT/2K/XP), Linux (with Wine) Very good option, especially for newbies without prior recording andĮditing experience, as recording software for LibriVox. Also, it can adjust theĪmplitude (Edit > Gain.) of a selection, including a "Silence" buttonĪnd, finally, as is dear to the hearts of most volunteers here, it's free.īased on this preliminary investigation, mp3DirectCut looks like a To have almost no signal processing or filters, such as noise reduction,Īlthough it does do standard peak normalization. But there are tag editors for that purpose. One drawback is that it supports creating and editing only version 1 When you're ready, you next click the Play button, and then Indicator), so you can get the volume level set correctly before you start In monitor mode, which activates the VU meter (the input volume level In mp3DirectCut, the Rec button puts the program Tape recorders where you have to hold down the Record button and then Actually, it's rather like recording with many Start or end of the selection, useful for adjusting the boundaries of the Section of the audio selected, say, for deletion, there are buttons whichĪllow you to listen to your choice of the 2 seconds before or after the The program has one feature I wish Cool Edit had: with a Interface is configurable for a number of different languages, includingĮnglish. The user manual - an HTML file - seems pretty decent. Selecting a section of the audio (and works much better than Total Works similarly to Audacity and Audition/Cool Edit in terms of I am favorably impressed after my initialĮxperimenting with the program. *What!? A recording tool and MP3 editor all-in-one? That sounds tooīut, yes, it's true. That it also records directly to MP3 format. Today, I tried mp3DirectCut for the first time, learning in the process Total Recorder for this same purpose (since it also records). MP3 files directly, in terms of cutting and pasting. Stephan has recommended mp3DirectCut for editing ( edited April 26: added details corrected one mistake) Stop, and replay with the space bar) as I listen to fine-tune the Operation of the mouse (or in the case of Cool Edit, to control play, Select small sections of the audio was very painful since I'm used toīeing able to replay the same section repeatedly with a simple Highlighted selection (as reported in the post below), trying to Also,īecause the play-back cursor position is independent from the Tried to silence the blips: somehow the amplitude adjustment wasĪpplied to about a minute of the file, and what I take to be the undoįunction didn't work, so I lost that minute of the recording. However, the trouble came when I cut out snippets only aįraction of a second long: that all-too often introduced audibleĪrtifacts, sort of a hollow-sounding blip. As reported in a post below, I got satisfactory results fromĬutting out repeated sections, which were all at least several seconds And almost immediately ran into trouble as I started toĮdit. Today, I made a new recording, using mp3DirectCut in order to evaluate Program, although I do intend to continue using it to cut out longer Mp3DirectCut - records and edits directly in MP3 format (Windows)īased on the dismal experience described in the next paragraph, IĬannot recommend mp3DirectCut as a primary recording and editing
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