[egg]

Hi,

I need to create short samples (30seconds) from many audio tracks (mp3 or CD). How can I best do this, without too much user intervention - and where possible, using free software?

The workflow I'd like to see is:

- select folder of mp3s
- program scans and creates 30 second samples from each file (ie. the first 30 seconds).
- dumps those files in a folder.

The reason for wanting this is to convert a large volume of songs into short samples for hosting on a website. But to go through each file by hand in cooledit (on pc for example) and edit each MP3 would take foreverrrrr......!!

thanks for any advice ;-)

[analogika]

iTunes has an option to set start- and end-points for a song, which you can use to re-rip just a section of a track.

I'm pretty sure you could write an AppleScript to do this, so, if you're running Tiger, you could probably build an Automator script to

1) take all your selected files in Finder and open them in iTunes
2) run an AppleScript to change the end point to 30 secs
3) re-rip all those songs to mp3
4) move all those re-ripped songs to a specific folder
5) ...
6) run another AppleScript to revert the original songs' end points to maximum.

[Silky Voice of The Gorn]

Something here might work:
http://www.dougscripts.com/

[egg]

thanks folks, i'll take a look at both options.
cheers.

[egg]

after some time looking at these options, this isn't the easy to use solution I was hoping for. I'm no script writer! :-)

Anyone else know of some easy to use software that can do batch editing?

Cheers.