Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Presented by djgra79 at the 2018 Adelaide Mini. See how to shorten a song, delete naughty words or even create your own mashup of multiple songs in Audacity 2.2.2.

Download Audacity: audacityteam.org/download

Audio editing background (why edit songs? etc): youtube.com/watch?v=_ob8fJCaUV4

00:00 Intro
02:20 Viewing the waveform and working out a song's sections
05:02 Shortening a song (removing a section)
18:40 Saving (exporting) to MP3
20:20 Shortening the music file of an existing xLights sequence... possibilities and pitfalls.
24:32 Censoring out a naughty word
30:35 Multi-track editing
34:25 Multi-track editing and mashups with two different songs

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