| WavePad Sound Editor |
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| Free Programs - Audio and Video | |
| Wednesday, 09 September 2009 | |
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WavePad Sound Editor website Works on Windows XP 2000/2003/Vista/2008 For earlier Windows versions (98, ME) please read the system requirements at the above link to download a version that works on older windows. Mac OS X 10.2 or later; Pocket PC 2003, Smartphone 2003 (Windows CE 4), Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC / Smartphone, Windows Mobile 6 To run under Linux use WINE. 459kb This is one smooth audio editor. It is fantastic for cutting up MP3 or joining multiple MP3s, cropping out parts to remove them or to keep just the cropped part as a separate file. You can also add fade in and fade out effects easily.
There is a paid version of this programme and I am unsure exactly what features work in the free version however it's done all I've wanted to do so far. I started off downloading the DVD slideshow software from the same authors which, annoyingly I thought at the time, left a heap of links in my start menu to their other software which could be downloaded. I think I was trying to do something with audio in the slideshow programme when it popped up and told me I needed to download WavePad Sound Editor to do that so I thought I'd give it a whirl. The slideshow programme was really nice to use and really easy but sadly my DVDs I make with it won't play for more than about 4 seconds (for me, it works for many others it seems). Well WavePad is way better. It works and is so easy to use even a kindy kid could do it, well, nearly. My first use of WavePad Sound Editor was to join 2 MP3 files plus fade out the end because I needed to shorten the overall length by about 30 seconds. I achieved this quite easily with no need to read help files. Many of the "tools" are provided down the left side in a menu but more can be found up in the top menus. Then yesterday I found on my pc a file I had meant to cut up years ago. It was a single MP3 of 108MB being the result of asking a friend to digitize an old double LP of mine for me. She accidentally saved it in one file, all 21 songs. So I sat here yesterday and chopped it up into the correct 21 pieces using WavePad and it was relatively painless. According to their site WavePad "supports a number of audio and music file formats including mp3, wav (multiple codecs) vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more". It also has "Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal". Some of it's uses are "Editing mp3 files for your iPod, PSP or other portable device" and "As a music editor (includes ringtones creator formats)". In the screenshot below you can see how some of the left menu items available change when part of a file is selected as shown in the blue (compared to the screenshot to the top right. The next screenshot shows you all that's available in the Edit menu
The next screenshots are the Edit, Tools and the Effects menus. |
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