importing MP3

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importing MP3

Post by mcahill » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:39 pm

I'm a new user to Audacity. let me 1st say thx for the people that work behind the scenes on this product. It's a great resource. I took a quick look through frequently asked questions and didn't see the answer to the following quest, so here goes...I'm a drummer that wants to slow down the tempo of a Miles Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven so I can figure out what the heck Tony Williams is playing. I was able to bring the tune to Audacity via real-time recording at the line in on my computer + decrease the tempo, so I'm cool with that but for future reference it would seem that I should be able to go to my iTunes recording and just import the tune; tried it but got a very short (10 seconds?) of loud white noise. Plz advise. Thank you very much.
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Re: importing MP3

Post by kozikowski » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:42 pm

iTunes native music format isn't MP3. It's AAC and Audacity has no idea what to do with that. The desperation method is to burn a music CD and then rip that.

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Re: importing MP3

Post by waxcylinder » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:50 am

Or you can play the track in iTunes and record it into Audacity.

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Re: importing MP3

Post by n0ctis » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:50 pm

As an aside, iTunes can easily be set to rip and encode only into MP3.
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Re: importing MP3

Post by waxcylinder » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:16 pm

n0ctis wrote:As an aside, iTunes can easily be set to rip and encode only into MP3.
Excellent point n0ctis - and you can even set up iTunes to rip WAV files from a CD

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