I’d like to loop a song so its perfectly looped and replays seamlessly when on repeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZ4GZyskVo

Can someone nudge me in the correct direction how I can get that or where to start?

Edit: Anytune app was most useful for this ;)

  • Curious Canid
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    1211 months ago

    It’s been more than a decade since I did this, but I can give you the basics. The key is to start and end the clip at a point where the sound pattern temporarily hits zero (the horizontal axis). I used Audacity to do the editing. It had a feature that would find those crossings automatically, which made the process somewhat easier.

    • @cheese_greaterOP
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      Seriously? Shit, I better dw that and give it a shot thanks for the theory bit there, thats kinda what i was looking for

      Teach a man to fish and whatnot 😁

      • Curious Canid
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        311 months ago

        Glad I could help a little. If you run into problems, post here and I’ll take a look at the actual process again.

        • @cheese_greaterOP
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          211 months ago

          Will do, I might like to learn that and also be able to easily add rain tracks rather than always having to rely on some content creator to do the dirty work or be helpless when it hasn’t been put out there yet :)

          • Curious Canid
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            311 months ago

            There are probably plenty of other audio editors that would do what you need, but Audacity has worked well for me. I’ve used it to loop tracks, to assemble tracks from multiple sources, and to break up audiobooks into chapters.

            • @cheese_greaterOP
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              You think FruityLoops on mobile could do stuff like that? Don’t mind paying and if I can do it self-contained on mobile, thats perfection and where I would play around with the most

              • Curious Canid
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                211 months ago

                I haven’t used that one, so I don’t know. From what I’ve seen, most audio editors can do this stuff.

      • @WhatsHerBucket
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        311 months ago

        +1 for Audacity. It has quite a few buttons and levers so it can seem daunting at first, but there are a lot of how to videos.

        Good luck OP!

  • @[email protected]
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    411 months ago

    Make sure you don’t encode as MP3, as it doesn’t support seamless playback in a standard way. There’s a forced gap due to the compression. Use for example wav or ogg.

    • @cheese_greaterOP
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      11 months ago

      Is there a way to easily just remove the negative space maybe?

      That might be more of a podcast condense feature lol

      • Bo7a
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        211 months ago

        When you open your file in audacity you can just select the dead air and delete it.

        • @cheese_greaterOP
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          111 months ago

          Like at the ends right? Not in between right?

          • Bo7a
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            Anywhere that results in the mix you want :)

            For example I have looped the instrumental parts of songs in the past to create ‘falling asleep’ mixes.

            Play with audacity a bit. You can basically treat a song like a text file and copy/paste/delete

            And that is without even getting to the filters and other tools.

            • @cheese_greaterOP
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              Thats so cool, im excited about that paradigm

  • Capt. Wolf
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    I’ve seen Mixcraft used to make loops before on different streama, but have no personal experience with it. It seems pretty easy to cut and splice audio sources though. Similar to doing it in Vegas for video. It has a fully functional 2 week trial though if you want to give it a try. I’ve just always used Audacity for audio editing.

    • @cheese_greaterOP
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      211 months ago

      Thanks, will check out both but probably Audacity since I may have used it before + its free. I intend to do this super rarely

      • Capt. Wolf
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        211 months ago

        I’d probably go the same way, I’m not one to spend money when I don’t have to, even if it means a few extra steps. The only reason I even got Vegas was because I was doing a ton of heavy video editing monthly for a show.

        • @cheese_greaterOP
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          111 months ago

          Do these alternative solutions have an easy “add rain track” function?

          • Capt. Wolf
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            211 months ago

            If you’ve got a rain track to add, both are just drag and drop AFAIK. I know Audacity will just make a new track in the project.

  • Cris
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    211 months ago

    You might be able to use endless jukebox if it’s still around, and record the output