mac or pc

pc.

can you tell us more what you want to do?

yeah. i was on the radio this morning and i have a podcast of the show, but i just want to extract the part with me. it's about a 40 minute show and the segment with me in it is about 5 and a half minutes.

How about audacity?

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It will lose quality, but it won't make any notable difference for speech.

You'd need mp3 support added to Audacity as well

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It will lose quality, but it won't make any notable difference for speech.

That's why I suggested ffmpeg. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a simple windows binary.

I downloaded Audacity, but apparently i'm a MO-ron and i can't figure it out.

Are you able to get it installed and install lame?

install lame?

I installed it, but i have no idea what you mean by that. i've even imported the file i want to rip, but i can't figure out how to drag the cursor over to where i want it to start.

tiggy,

why don't you import the file into itunes and then in the info part of the file in itunes set the start time and the end time to correspond to your segment.

then you duplicate that file as an mp3 and voila! new shortened file.

Basic Audacity editing tutorial with lots of screenshots [link]

Huh, you should just be able to click on the graph where you want the track to play. Can you play the track?

I don't have Audacity installed here, so I can't look at interface to jar my memory.

Gud has it right -- you click in the timeline to set your cursor, and click/drag to highlight the parts you want to cut in the same way you'd highlight what you want to cut out in a word document. It's just that the interface can be a little fiddly (and waveforms a little strange if you're unfamiliar with them) if there isn't either a screenshot or someone there to help out. A lot of people have troube with it until they get used to what they're seeing.