Breaking up a WAV file into tracks...

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I have a an hour long WAV file that i need to break up into different tracks. can someone suggest some (hopefully free) software that will do the trick?

thanks.
kk

― kk, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Audacity (available for all platforms) will do this. Quicktime Pro (I think it's like 10 bucks) will do this with a very simple interface.

― schwantz, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I've successfully used CD Wave for a while. It's a little tricky at first, but gets the job done. Website is cdwave.com free for a month and then $15.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Audacity.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

thanks everyone-- i just started playing with audacity.
one more question-- do you use the brute force approach of basically copying from the main wav and pasting into new tracks...or is there a simpler, cleaner way to do it.. i was hoping i could just insert markers on the main WAV and then have the program go through and generate the tracks...

thanks.

― kk, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

This may be what you need:

"You have got some audio sampling CDs?

You'd like to have all samples in WAV format but you don't want to spend countless hours cutting and trimming every sample manually using a WAV-editor?

Then WaveKnife is what you are looking for!"

But I've never used it myself so can't say...

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Not sure about audacity which looks like a general purpose wav editor, but cdwave is specifically designed for this task.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

CD Wave seconded.

Especially handy when you have a live concert that needs to be split into tracks for burning to CD. CD Wave will split on the sector boundaries so you won't have 'clicks' between the songs.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Equally handy for long DJ mixes if you don't have a .cue file.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

If you're looking to burn a long wav file (dj mix, say) onto a cd, with track markers, the best way is to not even split it at all, and make a .cue file and use that to burn the cd. Nero is what I use to do this. You just write up a .cue file (tutorial of sorts here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet ) and then use that cue file to burn an imagee in Nero. It saves you from having to chop up the wav.

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I think CD Architect does that too ("splits" tracks for CD burning, but leaves it as one file on your PC), but it costs $$. I've found nothing that will do this on Mac OSX :(

― schwantz, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah thats exactly where i'm at...i've recorded the mix but need to chop it into tracks. i ddin't know about cue files. thanks!

― kk, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Wave Repair is superb for this. Just put the markers in (indexes), and choose split tracks. Wave Repair is basically share ware, but this part is part of its "freeware mode."

http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep/freeware.htm

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, alternatively it will generate a cue file very easily as well.

― 6 (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Wow, never seen that before!
Thanks Cookies.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

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