A program for editing sound files in Russian. Audio editors

With new technologies, working on audio recordings is no longer the sole responsibility of professionals. Now every home PC user has the opportunity to trim, mix and apply effects to audio files.

What can we say about recoding them into various formats. Along with installed programs, online services also allow such actions. The most convenient of the programs and services will be discussed further.

Downloadable editors

Traditional way Audio editing involves using installed programs.

Such programs provide ample opportunities, but for solving simple tasks, such as transcoding a file or trimming a composition, there are “too many” of them. However, many users prefer to use programs.

"People's" program for sound processing. With a free distribution model, it offers a solid toolkit.

The first version of the software became available to the public in 2000. Since then, the project has been continuously developed and improved. The latest version for today was released on March 29, 2015.

Audacity supports reading and writing many formats, and various codecs, including: WAV, AIFF, AU, Ogg, MP2 and MP3. Wide range of transcoding options available sound signal between formats.

In fact, any source file can be recoded into any format supported by the program.

Among other features, it is worth mentioning an unlimited number of tracks for mixing and large number additional filters and effects.

Audio editor: Wavosaur

A free music editor that can seriously compete with other audio processing programs. In this case, the program does not require installation and does not make any changes to the system registry. A special feature is the ability to display a detailed track in 3D mode.

Wavosaur supports the most common formats: WAV, MP3, OGG, AIF, AIFF.

Ample opportunities are available for signal transcoding between formats, editing an unlimited number of tracks and processing in real time.

A significant drawback of the editor is that the supported operating systems are limited to the range from Win XP to Vista. Owners of the common 7, 8 and 8.1 will have to look for an alternative.

Audio editor: Audio Editor Gold

Audio Editor Gold, unlike previous programs, is not distributed free of charge. Trial access is limited to 30 days and constantly pops up a registration reminder. It features a friendly interface.

Track editing is done on a wave model, which can be scaled in detail to more accurately highlight sections of the track. You can edit each channel separately.

The software supports free transcoding between all supported formats, including WAV, WMA, Ogg and MP3. Any file can be freely recoded into one of the available formats.

Online audio editors

Network technologies are developing. Their current level makes it possible to transfer functionality many programs in the browser. Edit audio and video using network resources Now it’s not fiction, but reality accessible to any network user.

Audio editor: TwistedWave

With TwistedWave, there is no need to download and install proprietary audio editing software. The service offers the ability to trim, re-encode or add a filter to an audio recording using a browser.

Among the possibilities are about 40 VTS effects, fading effects over the entire track or sections of it, transcoding and saving the finished track in the cloud.

The service supports working with many formats: WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg, MP2, WMA, AIFF, AIFC, Apple CAF. TwistedWave allows you to freely transcode files between supported formats.

For the saved recording, you can manually set the bitrate from 8 kB/s to 320 kB/s. That is, the service turned out to be a good audio converter.

Info! Free processing only possible for mono mode. You will have to pay extra for processing a recording in two or more channels.

Audio editor: Online MP3 Cutter

With this service, cutting music will turn into a simple process that takes a minimum of time. To get the required segment of the composition you will need only three steps: open the file, determine the segment and download the finished piece of the song.

The saved segment can be recoded into a more convenient format. The service supports five formats: MP3, AMR, WAC, AAC and Apple CAF. It is also convenient to use for simple audio transcoding.

It is enough to simply not define the segment to be extracted from the composition, and choose to save it in a different format. That is, despite the fact that cutting music is the main purpose of Online MP3 Cutter, it can be used to successfully reformat audio.

Payment will not be required at any stage of using the service. A simple and intuitive interface with a minimum of necessary features is ideal for everyday use.

Audio Editor: Make Your Own Ringtone

A convenient online service designed to create your own ringtones. Unlike the previous audio trimming service, it has 16 effects that can be applied to the recording.

Six audio encoding formats are supported: MP3, OGG, AAC, M4R, MPC and MP4. Saving the finished file can be done both on a computer and on mobile device. It is possible to send the finished cut by email.

Make Your Own Ringtone can also be successfully used as an online music converter. All supported formats are freely convertible. That is, it is not necessary to trim the composition, you can simply save it in the desired format.

An audio editor can greatly simplify your work with soundtracks.

With the development of new technologies, working on audio recordings has ceased to be exclusively the responsibility of professionals.

Now every home PC user has the opportunity to trim, mix and apply effects to audio files.

What can we say about transcoding them into various formats. Along with installed programs, online services also allow such actions.

The most convenient of the programs and services will be discussed further.

Downloadable editors

The traditional way to edit audio is to use installable programs.

Such programs provide ample opportunities, but for solving simple tasks, such as transcoding a file or trimming a composition, there are “too many” of them.

However, many users prefer to use programs.

"People's" program for sound processing. With a free distribution model, it offers a solid toolkit.

Audacity supports reading and writing many formats, and various codecs, including: WAV, AIFF, AU, Ogg, MP2 and MP3.

A wide range of options for transcoding audio signals between formats is available.

In fact, any source file can be recoded into any format supported by the program.

Among other features, it is worth mentioning an unlimited number of tracks for mixing and a large number of additional filters and effects.

Wavosaur

A free music editor that can seriously compete with other audio processing programs.

In this case, the program does not require installation and does not make any changes to the system registry. A special feature is the ability to display a detailed track in 3D mode.

Wavosaur supports the most common formats: WAV, MP3, OGG, AIF, AIFF.

Ample opportunities are available for signal transcoding between formats, editing an unlimited number of tracks and processing in real time.

A significant drawback of the editor is that the supported operating systems are limited to the range from Win XP to Vista. Owners of common , 8 and 8.1 will have to look for an alternative.

Audio Editor Gold

Audio Editor Gold, unlike previous programs, is not distributed free of charge. Trial access is limited to 30 days and constantly pops up a registration reminder.

It features a friendly interface.

Track editing is done on a wave model, which can be scaled in detail to more accurately highlight sections of the track.

You can edit each channel separately.

The software supports free transcoding between all supported formats, including WAV, WMA, Ogg and MP3.

Any file can be freely recoded into one of the available formats.

Online audio editors

Network technologies are evolving. Their current level makes it possible to transfer the functionality of many programs to the browser.

Editing audio and video using network resources is no longer fiction, but a reality accessible to any network user.

TwistedWave

With TwistedWave, there is no need to download and install proprietary audio editing software.

The service offers the ability to trim, re-encode or add a filter to an audio recording using a browser.

Among the possibilities are about 40 VTS effects, fading effects over the entire track or sections of it, transcoding and saving the finished track in the cloud.

The service supports working with many formats: WAV, MP3, FLAC, Ogg, MP2, WMA, AIFF, AIFC, Apple CAF.

TwistedWave allows you to freely transcode files between supported formats.

For the saved recording, you can manually set the bitrate from 8 kB/s to 320 kB/s. That is, the service turned out to be a good audio converter.

Info! Free processing is only possible for mono mode. You will have to pay extra for processing a recording in two or more channels.

Online MP3 Cutter

With this service, cutting music will become a simple process that takes a minimum of time.

To get the required segment of the composition you will need only three steps: open the file, determine the segment and download the finished piece of the song.

The saved segment can be recoded into a more convenient format. The service supports five formats: MP3, AMR, WAC, AAC and Apple CAF. It is also convenient to use for simple audio transcoding.

It is enough to simply not define the segment to be extracted from the composition, and choose to save it in a different format.

That is, despite the fact that cutting music is the main purpose of Online MP3 Cutter, it can be used to successfully reformat audio.

Small free editor MP3 files for direct editing (without decoding), eliminating loss of quality and saving time. The program allows you to trim silence, normalize and smoothly reduce sound, combine files, edit ID3 tags and burn MP3 to a disc without decompression in PCM format (ACM and LAME codecs are supported). Supports large files.

Remember the times when we rejoiced at the advent of polyphony in mobile phones? What opportunities opened up: you could put your favorite melody on the call (which, however, could only be ordered at that time on paid services).

And even though it was not a full-fledged composition, but only a polyphonic one, this fashion (putting a melody on a bell) spread everywhere. And even then there were rumors, or maybe wild dreams, that very soon mobile phones will play full-fledged melodies in mp3 format.

Soon this is exactly what happened. But since there was very little memory in those mobile phones (only a few megabytes), spending it entirely on just one song, even a favorite one, was completely reckless (after all, you could save a few more photos with a 0.3 megapixel camera!).

It was then that it became fashionable to cut tracks, say, to the chorus or favorite moment in the song. And, oddly enough, now mp3 melodies are cut off no less often than before: new favorite compositions appear, old ones become boring, and we still get to the phone just as quickly, so we have absolutely no need for a long melody.

Why did I remember all this? Yes, because there are a great many programs for editing (including trimming) audio files, and in order to trim a melody several times a year, it is not at all necessary to learn how to use professional software, which you most likely do not want to understand. And here is a free, convenient and unusually simple program for any user - mp3DirectCut.

However, trimming melodies is not the only function of the program, but, as it seems to me, it is one of the most popular in this class"light" audio editors.

Main features of the mp3DirectCut program:

Trimming, splicing and extracting audio, some editing capabilities;
Record and encode to mp3 with audio input device;
Editing metadata of audio files.

Installing the program

Installation takes place in literally two clicks: just unpack the archive and run it!

Interface

When you first launch the program, you will be greeted and asked to select an interface language, fortunately, Russian is present.

The main window of the program: the central part is given to the chart - a standard situation for such programs. However, this graph is not the actual waveform of the "audio object"; it is intended to be used for navigation rather than to obtain frequency information from visual perception.

As you can see, almost all the buttons are inactive until the audio file to be edited is opened.

Now let’s add a full composition in mp3 format, you can do this by clicking the “Open” button in the left top corner window, or the corresponding item in the “File” menu.

I have a problem: I really like this album, but its penultimate song ends with a long “silence” in my headphones (probably as intended by the artist - the end of the main part of the album before the bonus track, which has a slightly different style). And when this divine sound in my head ends, I have to return to the real world, where it is not always comfortable. =)

Therefore, I want the next track to immediately start playing after the end of the penultimate song.

It’s good that I now have the mp3DirectCut program, with which I can easily cut off the silence at the end of the composition without making any changes to the encoding, without changing its quality or any other parameters except timing. Moreover, the program itself recognized “silence” in the audio track.

Right in the middle of the screen, as you probably noticed, there is a vertical dotted line(1), which does not change its centered position, being a kind of “sight” in the diagram. With its help, you can very simply and accurately select a fragment. You can do it another way (using mouse buttons), but this will be more accurate and clearer. So let's begin.

Using the slider at the bottom (4), which scrolls the diagram, we move the vertical marker (1) to the beginning of the area that the program has selected as not having audio frequencies(move the slider with the mouse, holding it with the left button). The marker will conveniently “stick” to the line, making it clear that you will not make a mistake. Now click the “Start selection” button (2).

Now drag the slider to the right again – until the very end of the composition (it won’t let you go any further). And this time press the “End selection” button (3).

All that remains is to “cut out” the fragment I don’t need, which I do by pressing the “Delete” button on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, I don’t know why, when selecting this area, the program does not highlight it in a different color (apparently the colors are the same), if you select to the left - where the “frequencies” are visible on the graph - the selection is perfectly highlighted.

That's it, the fragment has been removed - admire it for yourself.

Now you can save the file. To save in mp3 format, leaving it unchanged (except for timing, of course), select the “File” and “Item” menu. Now we save the file in mp3 format - in principle, the program did not provide me with any other option.

That's all. The program can do a few more things, but no more than is necessary for an inexperienced user. this issue to the user. Still, in order to work more deeply with sound, you need knowledge, and for this there are more powerful programs, usually paid. Well, for starters, this one will do!

Believe it or not, one of my favorite artists (whose track I cut) once created his first “beats” using cassette recorders, re-recording mixes with fragments of different tracks onto cassettes. And these compositions were played on the radio! And even with this simple program you have more possibilities! So, perhaps some of you will start your long journey with this program ;-), who knows...

Uninstalling a program

This is the first time I’ve included such a clause in the manual, but there are reasons for this. The problem is that the program is not uninstalled. using standard methods. That is, neither will help you with this standard means Windows or third party programs.

A special feature of the program is that it does not create entries in the registry and system folders. All configuration is stored in a file mp3DirectCut.ini, which is located in the program folder ( Program Files\mp3DirectCut).

By deleting this file, you will delete all settings. If you run the program again after this, the updated file will appear again. Therefore, to completely remove the program, delete the mp3DirectCut folder in Program Files, the desktop shortcut (if there is one), and the links in the Start menu.

Advantages and disadvantages of the program

The program is simple, functional, will work even on the weakest hardware (tested on a 2005 computer and Windows XP), weighs only 400 kb - you can download from your phone =);
Fast and easy navigation even within large files– up to 4 GB;
Very good translation into Russian, there are localizations into other “rare” languages (even Ukrainian language), I counted 26 languages.

There are simply no obvious disadvantages. One could call it a lack of functionality, but everyone already understands that of this type programs cannot be asked for too much.

Conclusions

The program is made, as they say, “for humans.” The interface, no matter how trivial it may sound, is truly intuitive. I didn’t even bother reviewing the settings, since anyone can figure them out. It is not for nothing that such programs are very loved by users. You will quickly fall in love with it if you often do simple operations with audio files, and it will not interfere with your computer or generally affect the system in any way if you use it only occasionally.

P.S. Permission is granted to freely copy and quote this article, provided that open credit is given. active link to the source and preservation of the authorship of Vyacheslav Protasov.

P.P.S.. If the functions of this program are not enough for you, try the full-fledged free...

Audio editing features include trim, copy, paste, delete, silence, auto-trim and others.
Audio effects include audio boost, normalization, equalizer, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse and many others.
Built-in support for VST plugins gives professionals access to thousands of additional instruments and effects.
Supports most audio file formats including mp3, wav, vox, gsm, wma, au, aif, flac, real audio, ogg, aac, m4a, mid, amr and many more.
Batch processing allows you to apply effects and/or convert thousands of files in a single function.
Search audio recordings and bookmark them for more precise editing.
Create bookmarks and regions to make it easier to find, recall, and collect segments of long audio files.
Tools include spectrum analysis (FFT), speech synthesizer and voice changer.
Sound restoration features include noise reduction and crackle removal.
Supports sampling rates from 6 to 96 kHz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bit.
Works directly with the MixPad multi-track audio mixer
With an easy-to-use interface, you'll be editing in minutes

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