Music editors?

[Murdoc]

I hope this is alright to post here. I've tried looking in the repositories for something that fits and so far no luck. What I am looking for is a (hopefully simple) music (mp3 mostly, maybe ogg as well) editor so that I can extract bits from them into smaller files. Just clips I can use for my cell phone's ringtones because they can't be above a certain size (750 kb I think?) I've tried ecawave but it keeps crashing on me, and I'm not even sure it will do what I want anyway. Does anyone know of something in linux that can help me? TIA

[sqlpython]

Re: Music editors?

If you just want to clip out small sections of sound clips try Audacity. Available with Synaptic to download.


If you are playing with Multimedia you may want to enable this repository for codecs

deb [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org/[/url] gutsy free non-free

Add the key to your keyring, reload the sources.list file and install the package:

wget -q [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg[/url] -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

For Hardy

deb [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org/[/url] hardy free non-free

* Add the key to your keyring, reload the sources.list file and install the package:

  wget -q [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg[/url] -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

[Murdoc]

Re: Music editors?

Thanks for the info! I downloaded Audacity and after about an hour of fiddling finally got it to do what I wanted. Not the most easy program to use is it? I mean, I haven't figured out how to both play a file and edit it. Instead I have to open up a separate instance of it and use one for playing and the other for editing. But oh well. I have my new ringtones, which is what I wanted.

Thanks again!