OT: New Audio Editor: Fission

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OT: New Audio Editor: Fission

I'm happy with Peak, but I must admit there are a couple of interesting features in this new editor.

Lossless Audio Edits - Edit With No Quality Loss
With Fission, you can edit MP3 and AAC encoded files without re-encoding them. This means you can trim portions of these files, or split them in to multiple files, with absolutely no quality loss. After years of research in lossless editing, we're happy to present the first and only lossless AAC editor for OS X, and your best choice for lossless editing!

They Say That Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Forget what you've heard - breaking a long audio file down into multiple shorter files is easy! Split your file into multiple clips with just a few clicks of the mouse. When you save or export, you'll get one audio file for each clip. Use Fission to break a recording down into multiple songs or segments in a flash.

With Fission's Smart Split tool, things get even better. Smart Split will hunt for silence in your file, and insert split points based on it.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/index.php

Posted on Sep 18, 2006 8:40 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 20, 2007 10:14 AM in response to HangTime

Have you tried this? I like Audio Hijack Pro and you get $14 off if you purchased that one, so I think I'm going to have to get Fission and see what the hype is all about.

I'm thoroughly disappointed in Garageband, btw, (at least as far as editing files goes). Haven't tried it for much else but based on that first experience, can't say that I ever will.

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Feb 20, 2007 10:21 AM in response to carlosasolorzano

As I mentioned when I posted that, I use Peak, so no, I haven't tried it, but it does look interesting. Perhaps if you do decide to get it you'll come back and share with us your impressions of it!

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Feb 21, 2007 4:17 AM in response to HangTime

I work in special ed in NYC. I had a student who needed to have an "audiobook" split into chapters, so he could easily navigate to an intermediate starting point when the whole project was burned to CD. Once I learned my way around Fission a little, it made this task VERY simple.

Mike

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Feb 26, 2007 7:51 AM in response to HangTime

Well, I bought Fission. I had a U2 concert DVD that I wanted to split up into tracks and put on my ipod. It was all pretty easy to do and actually very enjoyable. The only annoying part was the naming of each track afterwards. It was a little difficult because even though I had renamed each track seperately on my desktop before importing them into iTunes, when they were imported they all had the same name (probably because Fission names them before it exports them?). Anyway, I had to rename them again when they were in iTunes and they were great after that. I hope it's just a case of me having to learn the software better, but if that's the only downside, I can live with that. It really is very easy to use and the splitting of tracks was so intuitive, I'm very happy with it.

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Feb 26, 2007 7:56 AM in response to carlosasolorzano

You're the first person to actually report about using it. Thanks for taking the time to let the rest of us know your impression B-)>

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