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.

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      11 months ago

      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 😁

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        +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!

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        Glad I could help a little. If you run into problems, post here and I’ll take a look at the actual process again.

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          11 months ago

          Will do, I might like to learn that and also be able to easily add rain tracks rather than always having to rely on some content creator to do the dirty work or be helpless when it hasn’t been put out there yet :)

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            There are probably plenty of other audio editors that would do what you need, but Audacity has worked well for me. I’ve used it to loop tracks, to assemble tracks from multiple sources, and to break up audiobooks into chapters.

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              You think FruityLoops on mobile could do stuff like that? Don’t mind paying and if I can do it self-contained on mobile, thats perfection and where I would play around with the most

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                I haven’t used that one, so I don’t know. From what I’ve seen, most audio editors can do this stuff.