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I currently have a QuickTime Movie file on my computer with a rather nice song on the audio. I'd like to make the song into a seperate file, so I can play it along with other songs and whatnot that I have on my computer, but I have no clue how.

Any of the techno-dudes on here have any tips?

Ooh, I'd like to know that too.

Hmm. Check your temporary folders for the downloaded files. You can load those files in a Wave Editor, like Cool Edit Pro 2 or SoundForge. You can rip the audio that way.

Yeah, but I don't have any Wave Editors. At least none that I know of, if any come default with Windows XP then I might.

No wave editors come with Windows. There's a free one (google it) called Goldwave. It's great.

So how again are we supposed to open a QuickTime movie with a wave editor?
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So, no part of Quicktime will alow me to do this? How 'bout RealPlayer? Anything else that I might already have on my computer?

So how again are we supposed to open a QuickTime movie with a wave editor?
:confused:

Now, I know I can open QuickTime files with Nero's wave editor. Not sure about other ones, though. Nero can even open iTunes files.

So, no part of Quicktime will alow me to do this? How 'bout RealPlayer? Anything else that I might already have on my computer?

Nope. QuickTime doesn't have anything like that.

Well, I don't plan on downloading anything just to do this one thing, so any Wave editors are out. You say QuickTime can't do it......so how 'bout RealPlayer or Windows Media Player? I can probably get it in an alternate format if I needed to open it in one of those.

Well, I don't plan on downloading anything just to do this one thing, so any Wave editors are out. You say QuickTime can't do it......so how 'bout RealPlayer or Windows Media Player? I can probably get it in an alternate format if I needed to open it in one of those.

No, those can't rip QuickTime files. Goldwave might be able to, and it's free. It's not illegal, either.

If you upgrade to QT pro then you can export the soundtrack as an audio file.

This can cost you money unfortunately or there are crackers available but use at your own risk

Merlin Madgowyr
Spin Doctor to the rich and Famous

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I found a program on the same site as Goldwave that can rip audio, but it requires me to buy the program if I want to save a final mix longer than 45 seconds.

If I really wanted to, I could do it in 45-second segments and paste them back together.
That's a bit too much work though...

It says that Goldwave also reqs purchasing on the site.

you could use Windows Sound Recorder to record your computers wave output and then play the video, that would record the sound coming from Quick Time (just dont make any other sounds on your computer while youre recording)

I found a program on the same site as Goldwave that can rip audio, but it requires me to buy the program if I want to save a final mix longer than 45 seconds.

If I really wanted to, I could do it in 45-second segments and paste them back together.
That's a bit too much work though...

It says that Goldwave also reqs purchasing on the site.

That sucks. It used to be a free program. Oh well...

Ironically, I just did exactly Nadkor just suggested. Put my mic next to the speakers and hit "record"

Well, that didn't work out to well. Really crappy quality.

Ironically, I just did exactly Nadkor just suggested. Put my mic next to the speakers and hit "record"
ah, but you can get a much better quality recording if you bypass the microphone and the computer just records what its sending out. change the microphone settings to record from "Stereo Mixer" and turn the recording level down a bit (itll need to go down quite a lot...well, it does on mine)

Well, that didn't work out to well. Really crappy quality.

Heh, I was just about to warn you about the shitty quality it would have!

Where would I change those settings? I've got the sound recorder open but there doesn't seem to be a place to change it from the mic to "Stereo Mixer"

Where would I change those settings? I've got the sound recorder open but there doesn't seem to be a place to change it from the mic to "Stereo Mixer"
from the Sound Recorder...

Edit > Audio Properties

then, in the window that opens, under "Sound Recording" click the button marked "Volume", then in the new window select "Stereo Mixer"

And here's where I feel like an idiot, I didn't have "Show Stereo Mixer controls" checked

Jesus, and I'm supposed to be the tech swavy guy in my dorm

hehe

did you get it recording alright?

Started right, oh yeah. Keep going...not so much. It automatically stopped after sixty seconds.

ah...yea, i suppose that would be a problem. i had forgotten it does that

suppose you can just keep hitting record every 60 seconds :p

Oh, I did. Well, I started on the third try (once I realised it would keep stopping at 60 no matter how many times I started over). I's not so bad, but there's this tiny half-second gap that I hate

Oh, well, this is better than nothing. Thanks so much for the help

no bother, hope someone else can come up with a better answer for you

If anybody has some miracle idea, great, but this should do fine. Don't anybody spend an hour digging through obscure Windows manuals trying to pass this minute time limit.

Unless you have no plans, then dig away!

Programs like Soundforge, Ableton, etc. enable you to open an mgpeg as pure audio You cab usually tehn save the file as a wav. or mp3.

Complicated? A bit. You may also have some luck using a batch converter program. They will probably also work to convert from one format top the next.
What the files sounds like is not always guarenteed to be usable quality, info get lost or distorted. 97% of the time it works quite well.

There are many batch converters available for free on the net.

Just go to www.downloads.com and do a site search for Batch Converters, and also for Wav Editing software.


Hope this helps