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| Thread ID: 68044 | 2006-04-15 06:37:00 | How to open a large music file | gradebdan (2186) | Press F1 |
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| 446456 | 2006-04-15 06:37:00 | Hi My son put on my computer a full music album (about 90 mb as an mp3) It only shows the album name but plays all the tracks in Winamp. When I tried to make an audio cd (via Nero to play in my car) it said the file is too large, I guess about 900mb and an ordinary blank cd takes 700mb. I thought that if I could open it I could remove a few tracks to reduce it to 700mb, Someone told me that Audiograbber could open it for me but when I drag the file from Win. explorer to Audiograbber it says"This file was neither a pcm wave nor a digital audio file". My question;- Is it possible to open this file so I can reduce it? |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 446457 | 2006-04-15 08:36:00 | Audacity, a digital audio editor, should open it. Tt has opened an 80mb file for me and it may just be a simple matter of deleting the last track so Nero will allow you to write the CD. |
TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 446458 | 2006-04-16 09:56:00 | Hi I d/l Audacity.used win explorer to drag the audio track to it. Got a picture of a waveform? spectrum? slid the curser from right to left to reduce ? the file and then exported it. When I opened the file in audacity there were 225 icons each with a file size of 1.01mb.. Completely lost.... If you said I hav'nt a clue what I was doing you would be correct. I need basic instructions on how to proceed. |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 446459 | 2006-04-16 10:23:00 | I should have worded the thread "How do I open a large music file?" | gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 446460 | 2006-04-16 20:18:00 | I think if I remember correctly you also need an mp3 decoder if you wish to export the file as an mp3 decoder - I already had Lame from when i installed Goldwave. You should just be able to select appropriate portions of your file (eg individual songs) with the selection tool and cut and paste to a new file. Alternatively if you are confident with your selection you can export that directly to a wav file. Then export these new files to either mp3 for later recoding into wav files or directly into wav for writing to cd. The advantage of cut and paste is that you are progressively reducing the file making it easier to work with. You can save your original file at various stages if you are confident you have not corrupted it. |
TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 446461 | 2006-04-19 09:47:00 | Thanks for your reply, I did have LAME from When I d/l Audiograbber. I have been a bit tied up with other problems but hope to come back to my music problem soon. |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 446462 | 2006-04-22 10:16:00 | Hi TeeJayr I finally managed to reduce the file to a suitable size and made a sucessful cd. Thankyou for your time with my problem. |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 446463 | 2006-04-22 19:33:00 | No problem Other PF1er's have helped me - it's nice to pass back the favour to another user. |
TeejayR (4271) | ||
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