Anyone know how to loop a short audio clip? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

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.