Learn How to Trim Your Music Tracks
In my latest Macworld article, Trimming your music tracks, find out how to edit your music tracks and trim beginnings, ends or middles.
“While most of the music you rip with iTunes is ready for listening right away, some tracks can contain extraneous sounds or silence that you may want to remove. Some examples are applause following music that is recorded live, introductions to live tracks, between-song banter on live recordings, or silence either before or after a song. You’ll often find silence sandwiched between listed and “hidden†tracks on CDs; these tracks are only hidden because they follow a long silence added to fill up space (and make you think an album has finished). If you like the song in question, you’ll probably want to listen to it without waiting or fast-forwarding.”
Posted: 12/2/2008 by kirk | Filed under: iPod & iTunes | 4 Comments »
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I have always used the start-stop tags for this, with the help of the "Player
Position to Stop or Start" script at dougscripts.com . But I have recently run into
a problem with it. Some of my classical music tracks that I have downloaded
have a person speaking before the music. I like to keep the commentary, but
not always hear it (for example, the Beethoven Experience symphonies have
this, as do many podcast music files). This has always worked, until I decided to
set all my tracks to remember
playback position, so that when I stopped them accidently in another playlist, I
could still go back to where I was. At least with party shuffle, this setting causes
iTunes to ignore the start time. Any ideas on how to fix that?
Yes, I can understand the the playback position being remembered overrules the
start time. But what you mean is not that they start at the beginning and play
the commentary, but rather that they pick up where you last stopped? That
would be logical.
No, I mean that it plays the commentary, completely ignoring the start time tag.
I can understand that it would not reset to the start time after skipping forward
and backward a track if it is already playing in the commentary (this is a trick
that I would sometimes use if I rewound a track past the start time), but just
starting to play the track for the first time starts at 00:00 instead of my set start
time.
Yes, you’re right. I just tried it, and that’s indeed a bug. I’ll file a bug report with
Apple.