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How to shorten my music??

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:00 pm
by sophiaberry
Hello Everyone:

I am new to all of this. I downloaded the software fine however, all I want to do is shorten a song to add to my website. I opened up the song however when I try to play the music it only plays a blip of the song. What am I doing wrong and how to I edit the song??

Thanks.

Re: How to shorten my music??

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:49 pm
by Dunvi
It may be a protected file. If you try and open protected iTunes files, for example, it's just a <1 second blip of nothing. What's the extension?

Re: How to shorten my music??

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:10 pm
by sophiaberry
I'm not sure. But I downloaded the song from limewire.

Re: How to shorten my music??

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:12 pm
by waxcylinder
You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support . Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC in 1.3.

If this is the case you have two basic options:

1. find and use some converter software to convert your file to a type that Audacity supports

2. play the file in any music software that supports that particular file format and record it in Audacity.

WC