Audacity Forum

I'm new to this whole recording arena. Have itunes library and several playlists. The songs on my playlists do not progress from one to the next as I would like so i want to edit the transitions between songs. Fading at the start or at the end, creating silence between songs, removing some content and so forth. Will the audacity help with these issues and if so how do I implement this ?
Thanks

You almost got to the goal. Is the goal to play iTunes with no gap? That's an iTunes setting. iTunes > Preferences > Playback > Crossfade Songs.

You know you can change songs around inside a PlayList, right? You don't have to put up with the original song order.

If you have enough dance tracks, it will simulate a summer night at "Embargo" between 11PM and 2AM. Before that it's limp dance "fill" and after that, everybody's too blitzed to notice.

I think one of the iTunes will let you auto scramble the song order.

Koz

Thanks for the reply..

I have explored all the features in itunes and they do not create the seamless transition from song to song that I am looking for. Their fading feature is not very effective and they allow you to chop off the beginning or end of song but the space between the altered songs is now gone and the music overlaps and is objectionable. So I am looking for a way to use another tool to manage the editing of the playlist songs.

<<<So I am looking for a way to use another tool to manage the editing of the playlist songs.>>>

OK, well, your first task is getting the music out of iTunes. If you bought it from the iTunes store it's in AAC format which Audacity will not recognize and it has FairPlay® copy protection on it. The traditional way of getting around that is to burn the PlayList to a Music CD and then rip the CD back into iTunes with the import preferences set to WAV. iTunes has no output tools. Then the WAV songs can be copied back out and into Audacity.

You're on a Windows machine, so the cross-cable trick isn't going to work for you, but you have the option of recording "Mix Out" or "What You Hear" in Audacity while you're playing the songs in iTunes.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

Another option is Software like Total Recorder.

http://www.highcriteria.com/

After that, you open up each song in Audacity. They should arrive in timelines one above the other. From there, you select each song and apply the appropriate tools like timeshift, or Effect > Change Pitch, Change Speed, and Change Tempo. When you play the timeline, they should all play as you want them to. Then either export the whole timeline as one song, or select each song and Export Selection as WAV and pull them back into iTunes, or Windows Music Player which will save them as yet another proprietary format, WMA.

It's a snap.

Koz

Again - thanks for the reply.

I'm going to take your info. and give it a shot.
Sounds good.

Have a great day....