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Edit MP3s for mobile phones via QuickTime and iTunes
Authored by: artMonster on Jul 05, '04 03:46:09AM

This helped me solve a different problem I had with an iTunes track.

There is a song by Erin McKeown called "You Don't Know" on her "Monday Morning Cold Album available at the iTunes store. It is listed as more than 12 minutes long. The song is really only 2:58 followed by a long silence, then a hidden tune starts playing at 8:57. I confirmed this with Apple's engineers that this is how the track is laid down... this might work ok at the end of a CD that is the last song played, then a mystery song starts playing out of the blue... but for my use it is a pain right in the middle of a iTunes mix.

What I did was...

The original song: in Options set the start time to 8.57 and name the song hidden tune or whatever you want. This plays only the last part of the track.

On a copy of the song: Open it in Quicktime and save it as .MOV then copy it back to iTunes and with Options again set the stop time at 2.58 and only the first song is played without the long silence and additional music at the end.

I tried doing this without using Quicktime but iTunes seems to see both songs as the same when you set options.



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