how to censor words in music files.

The bleeped-out version would most likely be done at the recording studio simply by muting the required section of the vocal track while leaving the other (music etc) tracks playing. My guess is that radio stations get both clean and unclean versions (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
You might have some success with Audacity which is freeware. There are many options for editing sound including cutting certain frequencies. You can even edit right down to the wave form level so you do have quite a lot of scope. You can cut and paste which might be one way of ''dubbing over'' the part that you want to get rid of. Download it and have fun.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity
Good luck!
DT

i might could give That a try, Mr. Thompson.

i think i might have something, there, in eliminating certain Frequencies..
..although, since you've mentioned it, to me, I do remember now that, more often than Not, vocals are recorded seperately from music -- which would afford the opportunity to bleep whatever might be deemed Offensive while keeping the continuity of the music.. ..continuitous.

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for the meantime, i will wait for more answers..
..but, thanks You, daniel, for giving me Hope.

a perceptible gap in which voices are not heard. That doesn't seem to make sense.

More likely is that the offending section is snipped out, and editting techniques are used to cover the transition. For example, Another audio section might be used to blend or cover the cut. There are also filters which can be applied.

Sony Sound Forge, the full version, would be able to do this.

You're right that it's unlikely there's any third party software capable of this. The closest thing you can do with wave software is to turn off all sound for the half-second you wish to censor.

When studios record CDs, they record each track seperately INTO software - usually several versions of each track, in fact. To produce the CD, they use the software to blend the different tracks together. In the case of a censored song, they will simply silence the singer's track for that half-second. Once it's on the CD however, there's only one 'track' - they've been mixed (disregard stereo and 5.1 sound for this discussion). Trying to take out one track (singer) at that point is like trying to take out some of the baking soda you've mixed into dough - it's pretty tough.

Getting down into the wav file itself COULD do it, but you'd have to do so much adjusting, it'd be almost impossible, and would never sound perfect. As far as I know, there's no way to automate (program)this.

here is one website it free its is good for macbook or windows xp or vista its called audacity or you sony program

Those are some good examples of audio editing software.
I use Goldwave and it does an excellent job. However, I don't see anything in this list that indicates that you can edit vocals after they have been mixed. I've never found a method to accomplish that. You need to have the masters in order to do that. Of course you can delete the objectionable, but your left with a skip in your track.

well, it looks like i would need to mix my favourite artist's edited Accapella-track and Instrumentals-track to get what I want.

i really don't desire having any Skips in my music..
..i also don't want to pop any vessels in trying to figure how to get what I want.


so..
..i will keep monitoring this discussion, for a little while longer, before i come to A Decision.