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I have an mp3 audio file that I want to chop portions out to make up a audio cd, the audio cd bit I can do.
I have audacity and ashampoo music studio 3 but they both are a pain to work with, does anyone know of a programe that works like a video editor with a wave display and timeline for easy cropping and saving of sectiions, pinicle studio will do it but only as an avi file.

Try Acid. I think Sony bought it from Sonic Foundry a while ago. I think it might even be free.

I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab for most of my fiddling about with audio. It doesn't have as many options as Audacity, but it's very easy to use.

The new version 17 costs about £30, but version 1 can be picked up at Play.com for £8. Version 1 is the one I've got and it's served me well for many years. It's certainly well worth £8.

One drawback with Audio Cleaning Lab (or at least with version 1!) is that, although it's perfectly happy to import MP3 files, it won't export your work as an MP3 unless you pay for a separate add-on. It will export as WAV, which you can always run through something else to convert to MP3. It will also burn your work directly to CD.

Try Audacity. It's open source.

I've tried some of the sugestions but most have been overcomplicated and expensive but thanxs for the sugestions, all I want to be able to do is select the bit I want and save it as a new file it shouldn't be that dificult should it.
I'll continue thwe search while trawling through the help files on my programes till I find what I need thanxs.

email it to me, tell me what part you want seperate, and I'll sort it out. Should take about 2 minutes.

I'd love too unfortunatly its counsil sensitive and needs to be split into 15 parts, so I'll just have to soldier on.
i can do it with one of my programes it just takes an age because of the clunky overcomplicated interface.
studio does it fine but wants to save it as a video file.

magicdiscoman wrote:I have audacity

As Tomo says, Audacity really is a good option. And *very* easy to use. You'll want to use the 'Crop' option.

getting some results dispite the local blackouts killing off some of my work, many thanxs.