Hidden track

[kaylee]

Ok, I have a track in iTunes that is nearly 9 mins long. However, it is actually a track followed by a few mins of silence followed by a hidden track. How would I go about making it two separate tracks, or at least shortening the silence between the two?

 

[Cybernanga]

If you have QuickTime Pro, you can open the son in QuickTime, and Cut, Copy and Paste selections of the track.

 

[kaylee]

Ok, thanks for that cybernanger, but I don't have Quicktime Pro. Is there any other way?

 

[OSX Panther]

download sound studio! cant remember the link, but i think i found it somwhere on apple.com

 

[kaylee]

Thanks OSXPanther. I actually have sound studio on here already (comes pre-installed on iBooks), but I didn't even think of it to do this. I've taken the extra silence out (decided that I wanted to leave it as one track), and the only annoying thing was I had to save from sound studio as AIFF, and then re-encode into AAC - although I haven't noticed any sound quality difference from the original to the edited version.

 

[cubixcrayfish]

This needs to be like sticked, I see this thread every week

 

[musicpyrite]

You can trick iTunes into making it stop the track sooner. Select your song, press apple+i and go to the Options tab, tick the box off that says Stop Time, and change the time to which you want it to stop.

 

[corywoolf]

You can trick iTunes into making it stop the track sooner. Select your song, press apple+i and go to the Options tab, tick the box off that says Stop Time, and change the time to which you want it to stop.

off topic, but damn i wish i was in cape cod right now! 😉

 

[Arcus]

Thanks OSXPanther. I actually have sound studio on here already (comes pre-installed on iBooks), but I didn't even think of it to do this. I've taken the extra silence out (decided that I wanted to leave it as one track), and the only annoying thing was I had to save from sound studio as AIFF, and then re-encode into AAC - although I haven't noticed any sound quality difference from the original to the edited version.

Pre installed on iBooks? New ones only?

 

[mkrishnan]

Pre installed on iBooks? New ones only?

It was at least as far back as the first round of G4 iBooks -- mine from Dec/03 has it.

 

[kaylee]

cubixcrayfish - i did actually search the forums for about half an hour before I posted this. I found threads that mentioned hidden tracks, but nothing about how change them into two separate tracks.

musicpyrite - i did already know that you can change when the song ends /stops in itunes, but i wanted both of the songs so doing that would have lost out the hidden track.

 

[mad jew]

(comes pre-installed on iBooks)

Thanks for that, I didn't notice that app before! Pretty cool. Would Garageband be a valid alternative for this or is that a more complicated option?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

It was at least as far back as the first round of G4 iBooks -- mine from Dec/03 has it.

Not on my iBook G4 from Nov '03... 😕 🙁

 

[mkrishnan]

Not on my iBook G4 from Nov '03... 😕 🙁

Strangeness. Could it be a USA / Norway thing? It's always been sittinng in /Applications/Sound Studio/ for me. 🙁