How to extract tracks from a recording?
Snowtape features a very useful editor to cut your recordings and extract new tracks and it also helps you to find song information automatically. Follow theses steps to extract a new track:
Choose a recording from Collection, Last Recorded or Edited and click on the trimmer symbol in the lower bar.
After the timeline comes up you see a red line. This shows you the current playback position in your recording. With the spacebar you can play and pause playback. The first aim is to find the beginning of a track. Press the spacebar and hear the music until you hear the start of a song and press spacebar again to stop it.
Now you are nearly at the begin of the song. For the automatic song identification it is important to find the exact right moment. You can zoom in with the slider in the lower right corner of the timeline. Try to zoom in as much as you need to find the exact right moment of the beginning.
If you‘ve found this moment put the red line on it and press “M” on your keyboard. This creates a yellow guide line at the current playback position.
Now zoom out and play the song until you found the end. You can drag the playback indicator and move it directly to the position where you expect the end to be. Find the end like in step 3 and set a yellow guide line like in step 4.
Zoom out and find a position where you can see the guide lines. In this last step select the area between the guide lines by clicking on the first guide line and dragging the mouse to the second one. Then click on the „New Track“ button.
Snowtape begins to analyse the track and searches for song information. It autofills the form with title, artist and cover if the identification analyses was successful. If it couldn‘t identify the song put in the song information manually. Make sure you always have 30 seconds from the beginning of the song, otherwise the audio fingerprint algorithm won‘t find the correct song information.
TIP: If you created too much guide lines and don‘t know anymore which one to use, press „C“ on your keyboard and start over.