MP3 snippets and video?

[grandpafred]

Sorry for the vague title but I couldn't come up with anything better :)
I made my "first" little DVD of my two new grandchildren last week using MS Movie Maker and MS Photo Story 3. I created the soundtrack in Movie Maker and used still photos in Photo Story and combined the two in Photo Story. The DVD turned out very nice and impressed all the relatives at Christmas.

The soundtrack used full length mp3 songs... but for my next project I would like to take little snippets of mp3's... like 20 seconds out of the middle of a song, then 20 seconds out of another song etc etc... to create the soundtrack, BUT I have not idea how to go about doing that. In the old days of cassettes you could play a tape to the desired portion, hit stop, then play/record and record the snippet to another tape... how do I do that with MP3's, movie maker and photo story? I've experimented a little with trying to pause a MP3 and record the next few seconds but have not had any luck. Does anyone know what I need to do, and what software I need to accomplish this? I would obviously prefer open source or free software, but am willing to purchase software if necessary.

Thanks in advance for any ideas

[the_pm]

I use Source Forge for my audio editing, but assuming you don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for software, you can do exactly what you're asking using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), a free audio editing application that allows you to blend as many tracks/channels as you'd like :)

[grandpafred]

I use Source Forge for my audio editing, but assuming you don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for software, you can do exactly what you're asking using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), a free audio editing application that allows you to blend as many tracks/channels as you'd like :)

WOW...cool... thanks for the link. My search query must have been extremely poorly worded.... I'll take an in depth look at Audacity, at first glance it appears to do what I want (as you alluded to) and you're right... don't want to invest lots of dollars for something that is going to be just a part time little hobby.

May have to pick your brains a bit more after I get into this a little deeper.

[Corey Bryant]

For a few more - even though I use Audacity for part of our podcasting there are some others (I put this list together a few months back when we started to work on this): Sony Sound Forge, Audio Hijack Pro, BIAS Peak, DSP-Quattro, CastBlaster, Adobe Audition, n-Track Studio, Apple Garageband, Apple Sound Track Pro.

Some of them provide only two-tack editing while some will perform multitrack editing. If you want to edit in music you need a multi-track software like Audacity, Adobe Audition, n-Track Studio, Apple Garageband, or Apple Sound Track Pro.

(I hope my memory served me right on this one :) )

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