I need to edit out parts of a song to cut it down to two minutes for my daughter's talent show. I went to info and it will cut down one part but only one part. I need to put three parts together. I tried adding duplicates of the song to the list but if I

I need to edit out parts of a song to cut it down to two minutes for my daughter's talent show. I went to info/start time and it will cut down one part but only one part. I need to put three parts together. I tried adding duplicates of the song to the list but if If I change the start time on one it will change it on all of them.

iPod nano, Windows XP

Posted on Jan 10, 2014 9:18 PM

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Jan 11, 2014 2:04 PM in response to equijen

Jen,


Good, it should be good enough to start practice. Be aware, however, that iTunes only knows one way to clip a song, and that is "abruptly."


To get a performance-worthy version, you will probably have to make use of an audio editor, as mentioned by tt2, so that you can get a version where the transitions between the sections aren't so noticeable.

Mar 6, 2014 11:27 AM in response to 529beacon

In your library, right-click the song you want to edit.

select "get info".

go to "options" and select the start and stop times for your first section of the song.

click "OK".

Find the shortened version of the song in your library. It may take a minute for it to show up. right click it again and select "create (????) version". (the ???? is different for different formats).

The library will spit out a new, second version of the song which you can rename. I suggest you use the original title and add a 1 to the end.

Now you can go back to the other version and repeat the process with a different start/stop time.


Once you are done editing, you can burn all of your versions to a disk, just make sure your interval time is zero so there are no gaps between edits.


To keep the orginal song on your library, just go back to the original and put the start/stop times back to the original settings.

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