Edit & Mix Audio Tracks Roxio Sound Editor, one of Roxio Creator’s task assistants, lets you edit and mix music and sound effects for a soundtrack that will make your home movies come alive. Getting Started: 1. Open the Sound Editor. Click on the Music-Audio tab and choose the Edit Audio task. Add your audio!les.
2:43Whether it's a two-hour Grateful Dead concert or a 45-minute DJ mix, we all have an MP3 in our music collection that gets skipped for being too long. Tragically, there's usually one or two great songs in these recordings that would otherwise be in heavy rotation if they weren't tied to such a tediously long file.Well, today we're going to show you how to cut these songs loose by opening up and editing your MP3s in. The whole process is relatively painless, and if you set it up correctly, you can easily drag and drop files directly from iTunes, chop them up, and spit them back out.We have a and with all the details. If you have any other techniques to share, please suggest them in the comments section.
The truth is that radio promotion is anything but easy. Getting onto radio is incredibly competitive, and when it comes to large commercial radio stations in major radio markets, getting on the playlist may be downright impossible for musicians outside of the. That doesn't mean that some radio play is out of reach if you don't have a big budget and big movers and shakers behind your song.
It does mean, however, that you need to understand a few things about the world of radio if you ever hope to turn the dial and hear your song coming out of the speakers. First things first — there are two kinds of radio:. Non-commercial radio encompasses college radio, and community radio stations (including NPR stations) and commercial radio is everything else (in other words, the stations with lots of commercials).
Non-commercial radio is the most likely starting place for an up and coming independent artist. College radio is very friendly to such artists, and community radio stations often are as well. Don't feel like getting plays on this kind of radio is somehow 'less' than getting played on a commercial station. After non-comm, often turn to small commercial radio stations. In this way, getting songs played on the radio is a bit like building blocks.
You develop a foundation of plays on non-comm radio, which you use to build up to small commercial stations, which may, in turn, lead to play at medium stations and so on and so forth. However, it is important to note that there is more to the process of moving up the radio ladder than just getting plays at smaller stations. Radio stations want to see your entire music career progressing along with your radio plays. Now, how do you run a radio campaign?
You need at least four weeks in advance of your add date to run a decent campaign, and a few extra weeks may be in order if you're new to the game. During the start of your radio promotion push, you'll mail out to all of the program directors of the stations that you're targeting. After that, you'll spend a week or so to confirm your packages were received, soliciting initial feedback and re-sending any promos that went MIA. The next few weeks will be spent soliciting feedback about the single while trying to get commitments from stations saying that they will be adding the single — or, indeed, that they won't be. All the while, you'll be updating the program director with news about the musicians relevant to that market — shows, sales and so on.
At this stage, you may also place ads in radio trade publication announcing the single and that you're going for adds — especially if you're going for plays in larger markets. During the last week of the campaign, you'll do a final push for adds and then wait for the results to come in. That's a short rendition of the process, but that's it in a nutshell — and that's the same process used to promote to non-commercial radio up to the top major station in a large market.