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I was wondering where everyone gets thier music for thier shows and how they go about obtainging that music. And is there any websites that has Free music on it?? if that is even leaglle
Walmart.com has downloads as well as emusic.com. Emusic will generally offer you 25 free downloads after you sign up. If you do not find enough songs, or if you want to cancel after you download, you can do so without any hassle.
Amazon mp3. DRM free mp3 files (meaning the file isn't restricted in any way. burn a cd, transfer to any music device, etc) and higher quality than iTunes.
The old audacity formats would not recognize ITunes MP4 format. You had to covert the MP4 to a MP3 either using another program (such as Tunebite) or burn it to a CD and reload it to your computer.
Dale W wrote: The old audacity formats would not recognize ITunes MP4 format. You had to covert the MP4 to a MP3 either using another program (such as Tunebite) or burn it to a CD and reload it to your computer.
Works great now! Just sample the song and then export it as an MP3. Save the file wherever you want. I use Vixen so I save it there.
____________________ Oh, that's what the fuses are in there for....
My problem is I have yet to figure out how to convert i tunes format to .WAV that works all around! If I save it to a cd then upload it to my pc using windows media player as an mp3 then Audacity does not recognize it. I can open the file with Audacity but it will not play. If I use Audacity to open from the CD then export it as .WAV Windows media player doesn't reconize it. I need to find out how you all use i tunes music. You all make it sound easy but I cannot figure it out.
keepCHRISTinchristmas wrote: My problem is I have yet to figure out how to convert i tunes format to .WAV that works all around! There is a program called Tunebite (it is not free) that will convert MP4 to wav or MP3.
The thing is I can get it to convert but either Audacity, Wondows media player, or LOR will not recognize it.
For instance: I purchased a song from i tunes, burnt it onto a cd, ripped it onto my pc in .WAV using Windows media player and LOR recognized it. Then afer I finished sequencing it I decided to shorten it only to realize that it was unable to play in Audacity.
Your itunes songs are probably DRM protected. Once you go into audacity,
the new files is likely un-playable unless you first remove DRM 'beforehand'.
This are some small amount of quality loss (debatable) during the conversion, but if you have DRM protected files from itunes, you need to find the freeware program (there may be a couple) that will convert your songs to regular 'DRM free" files first ... then edit them in audacity.
Normally in audacity, you save the project (audacity format) ... then export the song to the format you want ... normally I choose 192+ mp3 files. You can just the type and bitrate to a variety of things.
I also highly reccomend people use a freeware program called MP3GAIN.
I've used this on my entire collection and many others I know have also. Nobody has lost anything using it. Its simple, effective and safe.
It adjusts the volume levels of your mp3 files without modifying the contents and can always be un-adjusted. It modifys only header information in the mp3, not the the actual encoding, like most normalizing does. This is not same as choosing the normalize option during the encoding process (for ripped mp3s) ... its similar, but more generic to all mp3, regardless of how they were encoded or where they came from (i.e. some are home burned, some from the internet, some purchased from a, b and c ...)
So the cool part is it can normalize your entire LOR audio folder to say 89 db (the default) ... so that when you go from song to song ... they will have the same loudness ... and trust me, not all mp3 files are the same in terms of loudness.
Last edited on Friday March 21st, 2008 04:58 am by taybrynn
Just use Amazon mp3 like I said above. It's a normal mp3 file that you can do anything with. With iTunes files, you have to defeat the copy protection.
