How can I edit one long song on Garageband, to make it several separate songs?

Asked by nimarka1 (942

) January 24th, 2011

I made a podcast the other day on Garageband. I just put together a few songs so they don’t have a gap in between them like they do when you burn a CD on Itunes. I put each song as a separate track, and they seem to all come together to make one really long song (a bit over one hour). Is there a way I can break it up; like separate tracks on a CD? This way I can skip over a song if I want to, and not have to blindly fast forward through it. If not on Garageband, is there another software I could use? or something recommend?
Thanks in advance!

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I would use Audacity. It is free and great software for editing audio files (just cut and paste). The only thing is that to generate mp3s you have to download the LAME codec, which can be found through some googling. Message me if you have problems.

glenjamin (2505

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You should be able to create markers throughout the wav file and then you can just jump from marker to marker. I’ve only used GB once so I couldn’t tell you exactly how to do it, but I do it in Pro-Tools all the time, and pretty much every audio editing software has the feature built in.

torchingigloos (531

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You can even split it via Movie Maker or via other soft similar to this soft.

joecobin (1

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In Garageband you can do this by dragging the line to the part that you want to split and press command + t. Split in between songs. For each song you want to save split at the beginning and the end of it out of the rest of the loong song file. Delete everything except the song you just split out of the rest of the long file. Export to iTunes and redo with everysong in the file.

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