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Breaking up a LONG iTunes track

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Posted 02 July 2005 - 08:15 PM

A friend owns a music club and records all his shows. I have several CDs from there that are all basically a single 80-minute track that I would like to separate into individual song tracks. Macworld had an item a while back on how to cobble songs together into one long one (using iMovie if I remember correctly), but I haven't seen anything about going in the opposite direction. The only thing I can think of is making 20 or so copies of the long track and then setting the beginning and ending times for each song I want to keep - WAY tedious. Any other ideas?
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Posted 02 July 2005 - 08:19 PM

If you've got Quicktime Pro, you could open each long track, then copy-and-paste segments into new files, save them, re-import them into iTunes.
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Posted 03 July 2005 - 03:27 PM

You could also try Audacity (it's freeware). Not only could you break up the song, but it has filters to improve the sound (reduce noise, etc) or add effects.
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Posted 05 July 2005 - 04:36 PM

Don't have it, but it might be worth getting. Thanks for the tip.
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Posted 05 July 2005 - 04:37 PM

Thanks - I'll give it a shot.
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