[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemmy.world cheese_greater @lemmy.world 10 mo. ago

Anyone know how to loop a short audio clip?

I'd like to loop a song so its perfectly looped and replays seamlessly when on repeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZ4GZyskVo

Can someone nudge me in the correct direction how I can get that or where to start?

Edit: Anytune app was most useful for this ;)

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It's been more than a decade since I did this, but I can give you the basics. The key is to start and end the clip at a point where the sound pattern temporarily hits zero (the horizontal axis). I used Audacity to do the editing. It had a feature that would find those crossings automatically, which made the process somewhat easier.
- Seriously? Shit, I better dw that and give it a shot thanks for the theory bit there, thats kinda what i was looking for
  
  Teach a man to fish and whatnot 😁
  
  +1 for Audacity. It has quite a few buttons and levers so it can seem daunting at first, but there are a lot of how to videos.
  
  Good luck OP!
  
  Glad I could help a little. If you run into problems, post here and I'll take a look at the actual process again.
Make sure you don't encode as MP3, as it doesn't support seamless playback in a standard way. There's a forced gap due to the compression. Use for example wav or ogg.
I've seen Mixcraft used to make loops before on different streama, but have no personal experience with it. It seems pretty easy to cut and splice audio sources though. Similar to doing it in Vegas for video. It has a fully functional 2 week trial though if you want to give it a try. I've just always used Audacity for audio editing.
- Thanks, will check out both but probably Audacity since I may have used it before + its free. I intend to do this super rarely
  
  I'd probably go the same way, I'm not one to spend money when I don't have to, even if it means a few extra steps. The only reason I even got Vegas was because I was doing a ton of heavy video editing monthly for a show.
It depends a bit on your operating system. But I suggest audacity as a cross-platform, easy to use, but powerful audio editor. As long as your song has a common section to loop from you should find this very easy to do.

https://gamedevbeginner.com/create-looping-sound-effects-for-games-for-free-with-audacity/
- ~~Is there a way to easily just remove the negative space maybe?~~
  
  That might be more of a podcast condense feature lol
  
  When you open your file in audacity you can just select the dead air and delete it.
You might be able to use endless jukebox if it's still around, and record the output
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