how can i cut songs on my computer

[gojikranz]

having a small technical issue i know there is someone on the boards who will know how to do this.  im trying to burn a cd of a live concert and the length is 1 minute over the limit of hte cd.  i dont want to delete a whole song just for that so i wondered if there was a simple way to just chop off a minute of cheering that is at the end of the last song so i could get it all on one cd.  thanks for any help!

[bettertomorrowamy]

Audacity

[mrbasehart]

Yeah, Audacity is great for stuff like that.  Just download the program, import the song, and cut the bits off you don't want.  It's really easy.

[gojikranz]

okay forgive me for being a noob but i cant seem to get this program to do a thing.  i opened the track with it used the selection tool to highlight the part of the waveform i want to keep and pressed trim outsied the selection.  nothing happened.  i pressed cut nothing happened.  i pressed copy nothing happened.  i tried pressing cut and copy and pasting them in a new document nothing happened.  when i click edit after making a selection every option is grey and unclickable.  it looks really easy and simple but nothing seems to work.  am i doing something wrong here

[bettertomorrowamy]

Make sure you haven't pressed the Play button and Paused it.  That could be the problem.  Use the Stop button.

[gojikranz]

ahhh that did it!  thanks!

[FLOCK of RABID SHEEP?!?!]

yeah audacity is great, and open source/free...