[iChelle]

hi all
i know this sounds like stone-age but on my old mac, i used to use sound edit 16 (ya in Classic!!) to edit my mp3's. however, i recenty upgraded to the black macbook and i don't think it runs classic anymore. where can i get a similar app for OS 10.4.6 that is reasonably priced and easy to use? i mostly edit down long mp3's and do a fade in/out at the beginning and end.
thanks in advance,
mich

[macintologist]

http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/

But it's not reasonably priced

You can also try searching here

http://www.macupdate.com/macintel.php

[iChelle]

thanks! ya, soundstudio is a bit out of my budget...=\

[iChelle]

i downloaded audacity which is free but it runs soooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooow on my macbook. damn rosetta.

[tooki]

Originally Posted by iChelle

thanks! ya, soundstudio is a bit out of my budget...=\

Gosh, I remember when SoundStudio was cheap shareware.

tooki

[iChelle]

sigh. any other suggestions out there? i have a bunch of great mp3s that i want to edit down and burn on cd for my dad for father's day...

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally Posted by tooki

Gosh, I remember when SoundStudio was cheap shareware.

tooki

Ya no kidding I mean $80 for that!?

[CharlesS]

Audacity.

Even if it's slow in Rosetta, it's still free. And when a Universal Binary version inevitably comes out, you'll be all set.

[iChelle]

Ok, Audacity it is...I will save the $80 for a nice dinner My Macbook's already spoiled w/2gb RAM and a nice case!

[moonmonkey]

Sound Edit 16 was and still is fantastic, macromedia were dumb to drop it.

Have you tried Garageband? its multitrack, handles samples well and you already own it.

[Dakar]

You can't save soundstudio files as mp3s yet on intels anyway.

[iChelle]

Dakar, there is an option via LameLib to save as mp3, although it does it VERY slowly zzzzzzz....
Moonmonkey, is Garageband able to fade tracks in/out and work with mp3s directly? I always had to convert mine to aiff in Sound Edit...

[kick52]

audacity. free. good.

[shunt]

This might do it, I haven't tried it though. http://www.deepniner.net/mp3trimmer/

It's $9 bucks.

I still have soundedit... yay old crappy hardware.

[iChelle]

^ nice find. will try it out. still wondering about garageband...

tried out mp3trimmer. it's not as easy to use as soundstudio...

[shunt]

Well, I just tried it.

Not bad, but yeah it's a little klunky.

I like the "try" feature, I couldn't get the fade to work though. Need to play with it a little more.

[iChelle]

let me know if you get the fade to work! for now, audacity is my pick. ugh.

[shunt]

Good lord, Audacity is really buggy for me.

Just tried Amadeus 3.8.7

Pretty friendly little app., 15 day FF trial.

[iChelle]

^ yep, audacity does not run smoothly at all. i get so many spinning beach balls. will look at amadeus.