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From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 5:18 PM
To: all-audio@groups.io
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Looking for Audio Editor Simpler Than GoldWave

Thanks for that, but as I mentioned to Steve, I need to change the encoding
of music files that I merge, (is that not the right word?), which I now do
with GoldWave easily enough. It's some of its other functions that I can't
seem to master, and at the price, I'm not sure it's worth it for the little
file manipulation that I do.
Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: Humberto Rodriguez
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 5:10 PM
To: all-audio@groups.io
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Looking for Audio Editor Simpler Than GoldWave

Hello all,

I am a little confused and admittedly I have not read this thread from the
beginning, but by merge I understand putting a sound on top of another, in
the case of Voice Over by ducking the underlying sound, otherwise not, but
by joining I understand putting one sound after another, even in a chain of
different sounds, each in its own file.

If the latter, it is very easy to do from the command line without any loss
of quality. Suppose you have the folder c:\ebook1\ and in it you have many
files, named 01.mp3, 02.mp3 and so on ad infinitum. In that case:

Windows-R opens the Run menu
Cmd and Enter, then type:
Copy /b c:\book1\*.mp3 c:\book1.mp3

There you will have all the MP3 files of the book joined into a single file
without loss of quality.

The /b switch will make it a binary copy.

HTH,

Humberto


-----Original Message-----
From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of Steve
Matzura
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:18 PM
To: all-audio@groups.io
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Looking for Audio Editor Simpler Than GoldWave

Foobar does merging? That's a new one on me.


MP3Mate's strong suit is that when merging files, it does not re-encode
them.


On 12/4/2017 11:10 AM, Evan Reese wrote:

Thanks Steve, I was using Foobar, (if that's how it's spelled), to
merge files, then I discovered that GoldWave would do it and more
easily than I was able to do it with Foobar.
I don't think I'll bother getting another program just to merge files
if I can do it easily with GoldWave without having to buy it.
Evan

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Matzura
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 9:01 AM
To: all-audio@groups.io
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Looking for Audio Editor Simpler Than GoldWave

If you're looking for a merge-split program, MP3Mate is a good choice.


On 12/3/2017 5:57 PM, Evan Reese wrote:

Thanks Steve,
That's pretty much it, although I guess I should have added that I
also need to merge files once per month. I don't really need anything
else to do that though because I do use GoldWave for that and it's
very easy.
Evan

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Matzura
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2017 4:47 PM
To: all-audio@groups.io
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Looking for Audio Editor Simpler Than GoldWave

If that's so, then yes, MP3DC is a perfect fit. I guess I got stuck on
the word "editor".


On 12/2/2017 3:14 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

I respectfully must disagree; MP3 direct Cut is a good program!
Certainly
it may be that Goldwave can do more things, but if I understood the
original
post correctly, he wants to cut things from files and adjust volume
(MP3
does what is required here and you've gotta love the price!
Tom Kaufman

-----Original Message-----
From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of
Colin
Howard
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2017 3:07 PM
To: all-audio@groups.io
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Looking for Audio Editor Simpler Than GoldWave

Greetings,

From his undoubted fount of knowledge, (and I've known Steve for a
few years
now) Steve Matzura wrote:

. . . removed. Its interface is klugey at best. You'd be much better
off
with GW if you want to do anything fancier than simply clipping out
portions of MP3's. I know it's a little tedious to learn, but once
you do,
you'll rule your audio editing world.

Steve, fully agreed, but as for tedius, I disagree, I found it easy
even
though it does not fully follow all the windows conventions, then
again,
neither do any of the other audio-processing programs at which I have
looked. For instance Winamp, even those produced by MicroSoft such
as Media
Player, don't fully follow the windows conventions.



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