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Video Editor able to synchronize multiple video and audio tracks for Linux
Kdenlive can synchronize videos using a audio reference. Select the track you want to use as the audio reference, press the right mouse button, and select Set Audio Reference. Then select the track ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?
If you really would like to save some effort, install python, use pip install pydub to add pydub and then use os.walk something like:
import os
from pydub import AudioSegment
OUTNAME = "Mixed.wav"
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Software to remove all empty space from an audio recording
I suggest Audacity. You can load wave or mp3 files (among other formats). Select the track and then go to the menu Effect->Truncate Silence... Here you can specify a decibel threshold and also a ...
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Simple audio editor (to double the volume and cut)
A nice, free, lightweight audio editor that is not audacity is Wavosaur. It allows you to cut, move, and edit the volume of audio files. Cutting is simply done using standard cut/copy/paste commands, ...
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Easy way to split an audio track into multiple parts?
If you are working mainly with MP3 files, i can recommend the freeware tool mp3DirectCut. The tool is able to split MP3 files lossless (without decompressing and compressing the original track).
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?
You can use FFmpeg:
Free and open-source
Runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, Android
Is CLI so you can batch
Can overlay two audio files, e.g. ffmpeg -i input1.mp3 -i input2.mp3 -filter_complex amerge -c:a ...
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Simplest audio editor, for Mac OS X
QuickTime player can do what you want.
File > New Recording
Once you're happy with it (eg re-record or trim it) save it then do
Edit > Add Clip to End and select the existing recording to be added....
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Windows program to fix unbalanced M4A/AAC audio files
Audacity is a very powerful application, open source, free, for Windows. I have used it to alter many hours of bad audio. It includes a wide range of effects. You really can fix just about anything ...
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Video editing plugin for Audacity or stand alone program
One of the less often mentioned facilities in the Blender 3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering toolkit is the Video Editor which also has an Audio Track Editor.
While it is not as powerful a sound ...
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Concatenate podcasts
The simplest way is just to use the Unix cat command like
cat podcast1.mp3 podcast2.mp3 podcast3.mp3 > megacast.mp3
MP3 files are just audio and any headers or MP3 tags in the other files will ...
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Lossless, graphical audio/video file editor for Mac
There are a number of FFMPEG GUI front ends but when combining clips you will find that it is necessary to re-encode if any of the following are true:
The last frame of one clip is not exactly one ...
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Windows program that will trim M4A/AAC files without any loss
I would suggest using FFMPEG + a GUI such as Avanti. FFMPEG allows all sorts of operations on the majority of video & audio files including trimming without recoding from the command line and ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?
You can use SoX (Sound eXchange):
free
open source
Windows / Linux / Mac
CLI
Can overlay two audio files, e.g. sox --combine {mix|merge|mix-power} track1.mp3 track2.mp3 output.mp3
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Mass MP3 File Stretcher?
You can easily do this in Audacity following the guide How To Quickly Edit Multiple Files in Audacity.
You can chain effects to be applied to multiple files. The effect you are probably looking for ...
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Audio recording software that allows setting markers?
While playing back audio in Audacity, you can press Ctrl-M (or ⌘-. on Mac) to insert a label at the current playback position.
You can type a note while playback continues if you wish, and press Enter ...
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Software for audio processing: improving intelligibility
You didn't provide your OS and price requirements. If you want paid solution and OS is Windows here are two alternatives for Audacity.
Option 1: Adobe Audition
Edit, mix, record, and restore audio....
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Audio editing tool where you can cut / trim an mp3 file directly, without re-encoding it?
You can use mp3DirectCut which is a lossless editor for MP3 (and to a degree, MP2 and AAC) audio files, able to provide cuts and crops, copy and paste, gain and fades to audio files without having to ...
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Software for voice editing and recording
Audacity is:
Very good
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Quite easy to use
Available for multiple platforms
Can do cleaver tricks like removing repetitive background noise or increasing tempo without ...
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Audio production with a non-linear editor that works from plain-text files
You can script Audacity from an external python script (with the output file being separate from the input file so as to provide non-destructive editing) with the scripts being plain text, python, ...
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Windows app to trim the commentary at the end of a song
Rather than a single program that does this for you I have a combination that can do it for you. The combination is:
Python - Programming Language Download and install from https://www.python.org/...
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Android sound file editing app with unlimited waveform editing zoom
Doninn http://www.doninn.com/products/mobile-apps/doninn-audio-editor
or
VoicePRO http://www.voicepro.it
Not sure about zoom, however.
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GUI app to cut audio without (or with mininal) recoding
This is what I've found myself:
LosslessCut (GitHub.com)
It's more focused on Video; the GUI is very limited (e.g. can't enter the cut range as timecodes, typing in the digits); and you don't see ...
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Audio recording software that allows setting markers?
Total Recorder Pro may meet your requirements, although it appears for Windows machines only. Here's one segment of the description to meet your requirement for markers:
Use Cue-sheet files. Total ...
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Software to retrieve songs from a larger audio file as individual recordings
Problem Statment
The basic problem is finding the actual tracks in the audio stream. You could search the audio for things that qualify as music but you will capture advert jingles, station tags, etc....
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Concatenate sequential multitrack WAV files into a set of single-track WAV files
The sox man page gives an example script for extracting each channel from a file into its own file. Basically it ends up doing (in reverse order)
sox all_tracks.wav all_tracks-01.wav remix 01
sox ...
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Concatenate sequential multitrack WAV files into a set of single-track WAV files
FFMPEG can split, merge (down mix) and concatenate audio, (and video), tracks including multi-track audio files from the command line or a batch/script file.
It can also convert between the majority ...
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Software recommendation to remove parts of audio from an audible audibook
Update: As of 06/13, I can confirm that the Tuneskit Audible Converter is able to decrypt Audible audiobooks without using the analog loophole. I set it up on a system without the components necessary ...
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Windows program to lower bitrate of M4A files without re-encoding
Frankly the question as asked cannot be done as changing the bit rate must always require re-encoding and reducing the bit rate will almost always reduce the quality of the track - the exceptions will ...
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Windows program to lower bitrate of M4A files without re-encoding
Hashim,
Have you looked into what VLC can do: https://www.vlchelp.com/convert-audio-format/ ?
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My voice is naturally nasal! Is there any app to change my recorded voice?
There is software to do this, but it's pretty expensive.
If you're starting off you could get software like Audacity to do some basic audio (voice) manipulation because it's free.
Or if you have ...
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