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Help editing songs

Postby Temporalin » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:34 am

Some songs I've downloaded start too soon. I want to add some time that let you see the notes coming.
How do I add that?
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby jrdnxxhero » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:50 am

Open audacity, import your audio, and add around two to three seconds of silence to the audio track. (Whichever you prefer.)
Import the note track into dB (Feedback), and move the chart according to the audio.
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I guess that would be a nice addition to a song.ini.
sec_of_silence = 1 (2, or 3, and so on.)

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Re: Help editing songs

Postby nobby76 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:42 pm

jrdnxxhero wrote:Open audacity and add around two or three seconds of silence to the audio track. (Whichever you prefer.)
Import the note track into dB (Feedback), and move the chart according to the audio.
Viola..


Indeedy. the same also applies if the silence at the start is too long. load the audio into an audio editor and chop out some of the silence at the start and resave it, then load the notes into one of the note editors and move all the notes forward by the same amount of time, so they are in sync with the audio again.
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby slashfan7964 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:16 pm

That doesn't always work though. If there are BPM changes, those don't move and the chart can get severely messed up.
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby tjb0607 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:54 pm

Go into audacity, then press File>Open, then find your MP3 file, then press Generate>Silence.

Change the number to 000.001 Seconds. This will make a 1 second delay before the song starts.

Then press File>Export. then then you're done!
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby slashfan7964 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:55 pm

What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby thebocaj » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:32 pm

slashfan7964 wrote:What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1


Yeah, it'd need to be 1 second.
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby SUSAltd » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:35 pm

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Open the OGG in Audacity (or something), then do the Generate Silence procedure that other people had already mentioned. Two seconds should be plenty (the rest of my post will assume you added two seconds).

Then go to the song.ini and add the line
delay = 2000

If the song.ini already has a "delay = ", just add 2000 to it (e.g., If it originally had delay = 157, simply change it to delay = 2157).

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Re: Help editing songs

Postby tjb0607 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:45 pm

slashfan7964 wrote:What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1

Yes it will, I tried. If you do 001.000 it will make 1,000 seconds of blank space, and I don't think anyone would want that... lol

I'm kinda confused why it's a decimal, not a comma. :confused: I see why you thought it wouldn't do anything.

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slashfan7964 wrote:What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1


Yeah, it'd need to be 1 second.


That IS 1 second.
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby thebocaj » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:59 pm

tjb0607 wrote:
slashfan7964 wrote:What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1

Yes it will, I tried. If you do 001.000 it will make 1,000 seconds of blank space, and I don't think anyone would want that... lol

I'm kinda confused why it's a decimal, not a comma. :confused: I see why you thought it wouldn't do anything.

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slashfan7964 wrote:What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1


Yeah, it'd need to be 1 second.


That IS 1 second.


My Audacity adds 1 second when I type 001.000.
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby acrox999 » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:29 pm

Duh, don't you guys know that you can change between various formats of time? For me, I'd prefer HH:MM:SS.miliseconds.
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Postby SUSAltd » Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:02 pm

I prefer SS.milliseconds.

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Re: Help editing songs

Postby OzzyOzrock » Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:23 pm

I prefer... whatever the default is.

04.000000
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby tjb0607 » Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:11 am

thebocaj wrote:
tjb0607 wrote:
slashfan7964 wrote:What? That is completely wrong. It will make virtually no difference. -1

Yes it will, I tried. If you do 001.000 it will make 1,000 seconds of blank space, and I don't think anyone would want that... lol

I'm kinda confused why it's a decimal, not a comma. :confused: I see why you thought it wouldn't do anything.

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thebocaj wrote:Yeah, it'd need to be 1 second.


That IS 1 second.


My Audacity adds 1 second when I type 001.000.


Huh, maybe it's something with the linux version... idk :confused:
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Re: Help editing songs

Postby Temporalin » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:57 am

I've added 2 seconds in the ogg files and "delay = 2000" to the song.ini, and it works fine
Thanks to everybody

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