Amazingly, I made it to age-51 without ever editing a piece of Floor music.
But this season, deciding to move all our music to iTunes and iPod for training, I was forced to LEARN.
For editing audio, I used the very popular and free open source software called Audacity.
download it from the official website
It works. But I had several glitches having to do with the various audio format of our tracks. (WMA, M4A, MP3 and AC3)
Some girls only had cassette tapes. To “digitize” those tracks I used an Ion Dual Cassette Tape Archiver ($150).
No doubt there are many other solutions. But this worked for me.
Our coaches will now have iPod playlists of their gymnasts as a back-up.
We’ll take the iPod to competitions. But likely use our back-up CDs in competition.
Leave a comment if you have more advice for coaches making the jump to iPod.
UPDATE: Wikipedia has a list of digital audio editing software. Angela prefers the free version of WavePad (PC only) to Audacity.
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