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New at Garage band

Oct 21, 2007 10:29AM PDT

Have music that I draged from Itunes. The music was burned from an album not in print any more. I have crackel and no song breaks. Any way to take care of this?

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Can you rephrase the question? I'm not sure, but with GB,
Oct 21, 2007 11:15AM PDT

importing a song into iTunes won't ruin the quality of the song. My guess is that you have an internal mic. that was on and you hit record while the song plays, so it picks up static since you're not singing or anything. But that's my two cents.

What kind of Mac do you have and what did you put into the file? I'm not sure what the song breaks are but please explain in some more detail.
-BMF

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Garage band help
Oct 21, 2007 12:03PM PDT

I mac . Recorded album as one whole side. Looking to seperate songs.

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To clarify...
Oct 21, 2007 1:47PM PDT

This is a recording made from a vinyl record... correct?

You recorded the whole of one side without break for creating spaces between the songs... plus the recording has the old analog crackle in thee background... correct?

You want to know if Garage band can clean up the hiss/crackle and make breaks between songs... correct?

I don't know if Garage Band is equipped to do what you are looking for (sorry, but I really don't do much audio stuff).

However, I think you might have better luck with a program called Audacity as described in this forum I'm linking you to...

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-11697.html

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If all that is correct
Oct 22, 2007 1:58AM PDT

Roxio Toast comes with a program, whose name I forget, that will suck the tracks of vinyl, clean them up and save them as individual files.

To original poster:
You are certainly making this very hard work to provide you with an answer.
A lot more information at the beginning would have provided some form of answer by now

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If Grim is right, and it's like an LP or real record disc,
Oct 22, 2007 9:23AM PDT

then I can understand the problem here, but what are you playing it on? How are you recording it? Mrmacfixit is right, you have to give us some info to work with if you want help.

You know, Brookstone has some turntables, but they're kind of pricey. Three of them have USB capability (yes they work with Macs) and each of those are $150. One is $400 and can burns CDs from the records or something and the last one is some kind of entertainment center.

http://www.brookstone.com/store/thumbnail.asp?wid=11&cid=1101&sid=110108

Not sure if that's what you want, but that option is available. One problem: I've heard that the current USB record players actually lower the record quality for some reason but I can't prove it or back it up. I'm actually considering getting one some time for my old records.

But... again, this may not be what you're looking for so please supply us with more info on your iMac. Helps you to help us LOL.
-BMF

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That program was called
Oct 22, 2007 11:04AM PDT

CD Spin Doctor.

Just connect your turntable to the Mic Input and away you go


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