I ripped a mixcloud stream using a great free MediaHuman app (Youtube to Mp3). I now need to rip the desired 6 minute song (in m4a format) from a 2 hour stream. The trouble is: I can’t seem to find a decent app to do it.

I tried using a couple of online apps but the file was too large to upload, and I can’t seem to find a decent app to use for my iMac anymore.

Do you know of an easy-to-use and/or free music trimmer/cutter app?

thanks

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Just to clarify some points to give the correct advice

    • The downloaded file is an mp3?
    • You need the trimmed song to be in m4a?

    If that positive for both, then some form of transcoding is inevitable, and since mp3 is a lossy format, and m4a is normally a lossy format as well, you might encounter some quality loss depending on how high the mp3 bitrate is compared to the m4a. You can select an higher bitrate for the m4a, but you’ll never achieve an higher quality than what the mp3 contained. For that situation, a relatively easy and visual software to do so would be Audacity.

    If you are able to keep the trimmed song as an mp3, then there are some utilities like mptrim that pick the portion of audio you want without retranscoding, which avoid degrading the signal.

  • alkheemist@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Lossless Cut FOSS, Crossplatform frontend for ffmpeg. Note that to do it losslessly, it will still be in mp3. If you need to transcode you can do that too, but like others have said you’ll probably lose quality.

  • McBain@feddit.chEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Audacity before it became spyware. Shotcut is FOSS and cross platform, it’s for videos but it will also work for trimming audio.

      • McBain@feddit.chEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Some company bought it and they’re collecting “anonymous” data. But since it’s open source you just get one of its forks.

        • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I thought it was just sending basic info for the sake of troubleshooting and bug fixes? Was that not the case?