How do you shorten a music file (mp3)?

Asked by 2davidc8 (10189

) December 4th, 2012

The dance group that I’m associated with wishes to use a certain mp3 music file, but it’s too long (4 min.). What’s the best way to shorten it to around 2.5 or 3 minutes? Ideally, I would like to do a fade out at the end, instead of cutting it off suddenly.

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Try Audacity, it is free and lets you make simple changes to audio files without any hardcore audio editing skills.

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Yup, I would use Audacity.

lifeflame (5912

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Audacity is a free mp3 (and other format) music editing software. Oh. I see that’s what others are saying. Yep. That’s the way to go. It has a fade out function, too.

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I’ll have to look at Audacity. I’ve used Gold Wave, which is a paid program, but the “free demo” version is so accommodating that I’ve never used up my time on it.

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Cool! I’ll try Audacity. Thank you all for this info.

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