[CentOS] suggestions for simple audio editor

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Thu Feb 28 14:38:13 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +0000, Nux! wrote:
> On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote:
> > I want to grab some sound bites out of several mp4 files, so I
> > extracted the audio portion into wav files to make editing easier.
> > 
> > After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is
> > the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to
> > work with.  Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer
> > granularity than a full second.

I don't understand,... I can select very fine-grained selections in 
Audacity. You probably need to zoom in on the track so you can position
the cursor properly, but once you've done so, you can select very
precisely.

> > Are there any simple audio file editors that you can recommend?
> > I'd like to find something more intuitive than audacity, but am
> > not having much luck with my searches using yum and google.
> 
> If you're only interested into cutting out part of the audio, ffmpeg 
> can extract certain intervals and I think it has a finer granularity.
> 
> HTH

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