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Editing an .m4a file

by mdcbk Jun 13, 2010 2:29PM PDT

I have several tracks of live music (my daughter)recorded on a CD, also imported into Itunes. I would like to edit them to remove the dead time at the beginning of each track. Is there free software that I could use, or something already on my PC (windows 7)that might work? I just want to remove 30 seconds of so without losing sound quality.

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Editing music in Windows Movie Maker

by brett_windows_team Jun 14, 2010 8:24AM PDT

You can edit audio/music in Windows Movie Maker. You can increase/decrease volume levels, mute, fade in/out, clip/split. These options are available by right-clicking on the Music/Audio track. The Video audio also offers similar editing features by clicking the + button beside the Video track.

Also, take a look at this site for more information:
http://www.funadvice.com/q/cut_off_the_beginning_of_a_song_using

I hope this helps!

Brett M,
Windows Outreach Team

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