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Fantastic23Fri Feb-24-17 08:45 PM
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"Recording Part of an MP3 file. "


          

Hello Folks

I bought a teaching series online in MP3 format.
I like the teaching. The file is about and hour and a half long
and I do listen to all of it when I have time.
But there is like 4 minutes of it that I really like that I would like to be able to capture just that 4 minute stretch into a separate MP3 file for playback... so I can load it into my Phone and listen to just that part when I want to.

Now I downloaded a free audio recording program called Audacity.
Its supposed to be a good one... but I cant figure out how to do what I want to do. I want to be able to play that full MP3 file... and then start a recording at the beginning of that part I like and let it play for about 4 minutes and then stop it when I want to... and just have that 4 min stretch captured into its own separate MP3 file.

I should be able to do this with Audacity... but It seems when I try to do this.... it records from the Microphone on my laptop and is nothing but static > but I rather want it to record from the system > through the sound card or through windows.. not from the microphone

does anybody know how to do this??
I have tried to rig audacity to do this but cant figure it out. I also tried to do this through Jet Audio free but I cant get that to work either.

so if anybody know how I can do this t that would be great

if you know how I can rig up Audacity to do this that would be great

if you know of some other way I can do this that would be great also

I have a Lenovo Laptop running windows 10
the laptop has 6 gigs of ram and is in pretty good shape
I should be able to do this

thank you for your help

  

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Paul DFri Feb-24-17 10:05 PM
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#1. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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You don't need to re-record the bit you want. With Audacity you can cut your file into pieces, each piece a separate file, or you can chop out just the piece you want into a new file. Try looking into that, but first take a copy of the complete file so that in case of accidents you always have a fall-back option.

I don't have Audacity so I can't give instructions on the fine detail.




Paul D

  

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Fantastic23Sat Feb-25-17 03:33 PM
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#2. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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Thank for for that advice
I will look into doing it that way.

I will do as you say. Copy a version of the file to a new location and then see if I can chop it up so that I can separate that part I really like > I will give it a shot
thanks

  

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dtellierTue Feb-28-17 12:59 PM
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#5. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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Keep in mind that Format Factory (link here) will also do audio file edits. I just used it to split a monolithic audio file into 13 separate tracks. Took only minutes to accomplish.

Dave

  

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therubeMon Feb-27-17 04:11 PM
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#3. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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Mon Feb-27-17 04:12 PM by therube

  

          

ffmpeg  -i  teaching.mp3  -c copy  -ss  18:00  -t  4:00   4minsegment.mp3
Should leave you with a 4:minute segment, starting at 18:min, ending at 22:min.

Adjust as necessary.
(Cuts cannot always be "accurate", so you may need to adjust, slightly, to get the content you need.)

https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/


Or a small GUI:

"mp3DirectCut"
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html


Both do the cuts without re-encoding, so only take a few seconds, & there is no quality loss.

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Bob GTue Feb-28-17 02:00 AM
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#4. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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Open file in Audacity

Drag to highlight desired section

File->Export selected audio.

I've had Audacity for some time, but rarely use it and not for this. I can't remember if I had to install LAME or not. Find your way to the Audacity site to get instructions to do that if you have to. I just followed my instructions and it worked fine.

  

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Fantastic23Tue Feb-28-17 03:47 PM
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#6. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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Thanks Bob
I will try that

Yeah sometimes in audacity I dont understand some things
Like I can highlight a certain part > and there is a button for CUT and you would think that you could just click and cut that part out > but the CUT button is grayed out at times and wont work
So I dont know why things like that happen

Well I will try to to read up about it more and see if I can get this to work

  

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therubeWed Mar-01-17 05:53 PM
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#7. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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My (quick) look at Audacity found it to be an odd one:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31052097-

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Paul DWed Mar-01-17 09:25 PM
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#8. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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Wed Mar-01-17 09:26 PM by Paul D

  

          

Audacity is far and away the most flexible audio editor around, but with that flexibility comes of necessity a degree of complexity.

Mp3DirectCut is more limited, which in turn means it's probably a bit easier to use. It will do what you want, again without needing to actually record anything, although it will record as well.

http://www.mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html




Paul D

  

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Fantastic23Thu Mar-02-17 01:43 AM
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#9. "RE: Recording Part of an MP3 file. "
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thank yo Paul
Yeah I have found some function in Audacity hard to use

I will look into MP3 cut
Because I dont have any real big editing needs
just basic cutting and or splicing

thanks again

  

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