https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/ en Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139118 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:36:42 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139118 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139117 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:34:50 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139117 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139116 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:18:00 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139116 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139115 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:15:26 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139115 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139114 lose quality when working with mp3 files.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:57:03 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139114 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139113 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:45:01 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139113 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139112 "This might have an edge in the formats it deals with directly, but there’s hundreds of free encoders that look after such trivialities. My only question is whose fingerprints are on the code." FWIW I think MP3 Cutter will open anything ffmpeg can handle -- it uses ffmpeg to put a copy of the audio as a .wav file in the Tmp folder & works with that. If a source file can't be opened, maybe a later ffmpeg version will -- a reason to experiment with an ffmpeg update? Other than ffmpeg, where ffmpeg.org is the source, one of the files is the SkinSharp GUI Toolkit, others don't say or are in Chinese. * * * #11: "... other than snipping an MP3 into a ringtone, I can’t figure out how to do any of them! Am I missing something? And it doesn’t say anything about the quality. I also sometimes like to take out bits of songs, but keep the rest as a single file, and I don’t see how this would do that." There are 2 buttons "[" & "]" plus the Begin & End number boxes to set the beginning & end of what you want to encode. Quality is set in the Settings menu -> Settings, with drop-downs for bit rate, sample rate [8, 12, ... 44.1, 48], & channels. The original file is untouched, if that's what you mean about keeping a single file. If you mean cutting out a section and joining both ends of the gap you'll need a regular audio editor for that. * * * #12: "I don’t like the report that installation takes you to a place where an attempt is made to have you pay for this on your charge card. " Not saying it's good/bad, but like many other shareware apps MP3 Cutter doesn't have separate Buy & Register buttons or links -- when you click register your browser opens to the site where you can purchase a key if you don't already have one... since we already have one courtesy of GOTD, close the browser & copy/paste that key into the "Register" window.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:08:17 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139112 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139111 [Visual Basic] front end for ffmpeg, that lets you import audio in several formats, trim the beginning &/or end of the file [simple cuts, with no fades etc.], and re-encode the result to mp3, wma, wav, or amr. Per Wikipedia [ http://goo.gl/wwtBC ] "FFmpeg is a free software / open source project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. " -- it's the popular basis for most all the video converters that show up on GOTD, incorporated in the very popular VLC player etc., & is available as stand-alone, CLI [Command Line Interface] apps [this videohelp.com Tools page http://goo.gl/JtCG2 has links where you can download Windows versions, as well as links to several other front ends]. When you click the Save button in MP3 Cutter it starts ffmpeg, passing it the needed CLI arguments to encode just the selected/desired portion of your audio file. While MP3 Cutter is a VB app, setup does not include any of the VB runtime or support files -- in most Windows installs this is not a problem, since VB handling has already been setup/included, but if needed the VB6 runtime is available from microsoft.com http://goo.gl/upR5p [you probably should check Microsoft Updates after install]. The included ffmpeg app is older, showing a date of 1/12/07 when opened from the command line -- the newest version is from 7/4/11, & can be renamed to replace MP3 Cutter's "Coder.exe", though I did experience some progress bar display issues... I don't see any great need to do that, but if you wanted to experiment, see if it worked any better for you, it does work. When you open a file in MP3 Cutter it creates a C:\Tmp folder where it puts a temporary copy of the audio stored as a .wav file that it works with -- even if the file you opened was a .wav file to begin with -- then deletes that file & folder when you close the app. While MP3 Cutter does show you a waveform display, there is no way to zoom in, & the waveform from a 104 KB file looks identical to one that's 1.13 GB when the windows are displayed side by side [do not open more than 1 instance of MP3 Cutter BTW, as the temporary .wav file from the 2nd overwrites the 1st]. Installation adds the C:\MP3Cutter folder with 15 files, 1 folder, ~12 MB, plus Start Menu shortcuts & an uninstall key in the registry. MP3 Cutter does what it does [calls or opens the ffmpeg cli app], it works, & it's easier than opening a command window & typing in everything yourself. It's not an audio app like Wavosaur or Audacity, so any comparison would be between an audio editor & what's primarily a video encoder, the ffmpeg cli app. Using the video encoder is obviously doable, but why would you? The only reason I can think of would be if you wanted to work with a video file -- not all audio editing apps will. Otherwise special apps like mp3DirectCut can trim MP3 files without re-encoding, & there are tools that do the same for many other formats, be it wma or AC3 etc. Most audio editing apps will convert non-wav files to .wav before editing -- encoding to MP3 twice will lose additional quality, but not twice as much, because much of the data that MP3 encoding discards is already gone.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:38:06 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139111 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139110 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:30:04 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139110 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139109 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:07:41 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mp3-cutter/#comment-139109