Basic audio editing

[mac3687]

Rather than buy new ringtones, I send my own mp3's to my phone. In my PC days, I'd open the file in Windows Movie Maker to trim the track to the portion I want, save it as an mp3, and poof, I was done. i want to do the same now that I'm on OS X, but don't know what program to use. iMovie edited the file easily, but would only save as a move. GarageBand worked also, but would only save as a GarageBand file. Any other way to accomplish what I want? It needs to end up as an mp3 file.

 

[topgun072003]

itunes advanced preferences. you can import it as a mp3 file.

 

[mac3687]

But I already have the file on my mac. I want to trim the song down in some editing program, then save it as an mp3. Thank you though.

 

[neut]

iMovie should be able to trim your audio. If it can't export mp3 (GarageBand can't?) than have iTunes convert it.
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peace | neut

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

iMovie should be able to trim your audio. If it can't export mp3 (GarageBand can't?) than have iTunes convert it.
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peace | neut

Garageband> Export to iTunes
then convert to MP3 on iTunes under Advanced.
Cheers

 

[Viremia]

You might try Audacity

To export as an MP3, you'll need to get ahold of the LAME MP3 encoder (see link on the download site)

 

[neut]

Garageband> Export to iTunes
then convert to MP3 on iTunes under Advanced.
Cheers

Good call ... i'm not much of a GarageBand user. And I didn't feel like opening it up at the moment.
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peace | neut