Slicing Up Radio Scanner Recordings?

[RedPenguin]

I have been experimenting with Vox-type recorders and many seem to record in wav format though some record in mp3 format.

I have tried Audacity and WavePad but neither seem to work right. What I want to do is, take the record file and clip out a small chunk and save that. Then just delete the rest.

I like to keep recordings of unit's I am trying to identify on a certain frequency. So I may have an hour long recording but really only want 2 minutes or so of talk.

 

[davidmc36]

I have been experimenting with Vox-type recorders and many seem to record in wav format though some record in mp3 format.

I have tried Audacity and WavePad but neither seem to work right. What I want to do is, take the record file and clip out a small chunk and save that. Then just delete the rest.

I like to keep recordings of unit's I am trying to identify on a certain frequency. So I may have an hour long recording but really only want 2 minutes or so of talk.

It could be done with windows movie maker (included with XP) you can make a "movie" with your sound clip and maybe a "picture" that identifies what the clip is. Drag the clip down below the timeline and then make a start and stop mark. it will discard the rest that you don't want. I dont know how big it may make the file since it is actully making a movie, probably too big?

 

[DELCOLHFC]

Reds, I had posted in one of your threads before that I use Xcorder. You can do this editing down to your "keepers" with the playback funtions on this freeware. Of course it is in wav format but that has never presented a problem with me. I sometimes when the skip/tropo is booming will record a 2055 heavily loaded up on long distance freqs and then in the morning drag and drop the files into my Creative Zen's (mp3/other formats music player) load file and then listen while at work. I've trimmed up some of these files also that contain interesting traffic or addresses to verify locations. All in the pursuit of defeating boredom at work.

 

[iMONITOR]

Have you looked at Butel's ARC-15 software?

 

[Scan-Denver]

I have been experimenting with Vox-type recorders and many seem to record in wav format though some record in mp3 format.

I have tried Audacity and WavePad but neither seem to work right. What I want to do is, take the record file and clip out a small chunk and save that. Then just delete the rest.

I like to keep recordings of unit's I am trying to identify on a certain frequency. So I may have an hour long recording but really only want 2 minutes or so of talk.

You mentioned you have tried Audacity, if you have the latest and greatest, Audacity will do what you are trying to do and alot more than any of the others. If you don't have the latest version of it, download it and give it another try!

 

[shaft]

Audacity will do exactly what you are looking to do. I have done it a lot using that program.

 

[RedPenguin]

I will have to try again....

I will have to give it another try.

It just seemed hard to select the start and stop and at the time I couldn't seem to find out where to say ok, start here and stop here.

I know you can highlight part of the file but it seems to be a hit or miss kinda thing.

A lot of the files are from Audacity itself, XCorder and Vox2File, and some other random mp3/wav recorders.

EDIT: HaHa now it works. I found an amazing feature. Though I never thought it would be called Zoom. I mean, I'm used to Zoom when it comes to pictures and videos normally. I just zoomed in to minute and second and I can easily chop out the audio pieces I want. Thanks again for recommending that I try Audacity again. I love free and open-source programs.

Now is there an easy way using Audacity to append segments besides using cut, copy, & paste? I would like to be able to rip pieces out of the original file and paste them all in to another file that will obviously then have a completed conversation with no interruptions.

 

[smason]

I I love free and open-source programs.

Free open source software (FOSS) is great, and Audacity is a shining example!

I saved the company I work for probably $50,000 by using several FOSS programs like RT3, Nagios and Snort.

 

[zz0468]

I use a shareware program called Goldwave for sound editing. It's fairly inexpensive, and I think you can still get a fully functional - but time limited - trial version for free.

 

[RedPenguin]

Yes......

Free open source software (FOSS) is great, and Audacity is a shining example!

I saved the company I work for probably $50,000 by using several FOSS programs like RT3, Nagios and Snort.

Yes, just like OpenOffice.org, Linux (possibly the most popular), and even listener which appearntly some use here for recording their scanner.

I still have to configure and play with listener to see how it will work with my setup.

I like Windows Scanner Software, but Windows seems to end up having problems over time for me and you always seem to need to reinstall.

 

[kb2vxa]

For all my slicing and dicing I use Adobe Audition, the next generation of Cool Edit Pro since Adobe bought Sentrillium. It's a professional recording and editing suite you may have seen on Ghost Hunters and other TV programs, you'd be surprised what it can do with your audio files.