I'm computer program illiterate. I don't even know how to make a webpage. BUT, I have an idea I want to try for a Web 2.0 page. I think I could probably, eventually, learn to make the web page but I also really need a program written. I'm thinking along the lines of a program that can make MP3 that can be downloaded onto iPODs. How do I get the program written? Is there someone in like India that will write the program if I give them the details of what I want or are there any free ware for combining a few sound files into MP3s? Like, lets say I have a recording of myself saying hello and another of myself saying bye can I connect the two into one sound file?

I'm kind of flat out busy but this is something I am hoping to get on over the next year.

Thanks
:)
Michael

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I'm computer program illiterate. I don't even know how to make a webpage. BUT, I have an idea I want to try for a Web 2.0 page. I think I could probably, eventually, learn to make the web page but I also really need a program written. I'm thinking along the lines of a program that can make MP3 that can be downloaded onto iPODs. How do I get the program written? Is there someone in like India that will write the program if I give them the details of what I want or are there any free ware for combining a few sound files into MP3s? Like, lets say I have a recording of myself saying hello and another of myself saying bye can I connect the two into one sound file?

I'm kind of flat out busy but this is something I am hoping to get on over the next year.

Thanks
:)
Michael

Are you trying to make an iPod song manager (like iTunes)? Are you trying to make an application for putting sound files on, or deleting them from the iPod?

Welp- if that's the case, there are already lots of different non-iTunes applications that have already been written for doing that. One in particular is "yamipod" (link: http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ ) which is totally free.............. so you don't have to contact the coder from bangalore if you don't want.


If this is not what you were talking about, then are you asking if there are any programs for creating or editing audio?
There are a bunch of applications already written to do that - one in particular is Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ). It will allow you do edit/modify/merge/whatever sound files. You can even use it to create mp3s.

OK, let me try to give an example.

Lets say I say make the following sound files where I speak and record the words:

"like" and I save this file as "like.mp3"
"flowers" and I save this file as "flowers.mp3"
"are" and I save this file as "are.mp3"
"soft" and I save this file as "soft.mp3"
"girls" and I save this file as "girls.mp3"
"pink" and I save this file as "pink.mp3"


Now I have these six files. I want to then arrange the files in various ways. Lets say one day I want an mp3 that plays continuously as such: "girls are soft". So I need a program that will "glue" those three files into one continuous track which I put on my iPOD. Say then next day I want to get rid of that and update with an mp3 that says "flowers are pink like girls" so I want a program that I click on those words and they are added in that order and a continuous track is made that will play that sentence.

Are there any user friendly programs for doing this sort of thing?

Thanks!
Michael

Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ). It will allow you do edit/modify/merge/whatever sound files. You can even use it to create mp3s.Actually it looks like audacity may be sort of what I am looking for. Hmmm....


Thanks! I'll give it a try this weekend or next weekend. If anyone knows of something else please send me a link :)

Cheers,
Michael

OK, let me try to give an example.

Lets say I say make the following sound files where I speak and record the words:

"like" and I save this file as "like.mp3"
"flowers" and I save this file as "flowers.mp3"
"are" and I save this file as "are.mp3"
"soft" and I save this file as "soft.mp3"
"girls" and I save this file as "girls.mp3"
"pink" and I save this file as "pink.mp3"


Now I have these six files. I want to then arrange the files in various ways. Lets say one day I want an mp3 that plays continuously as such: "girls are soft". So I need a program that will "glue" those three files into one continuous track which I put on my iPOD. Say then next day I want to get rid of that and update with an mp3 that says "flowers are pink like girls" so I want a program that I click on those words and they are added in that order and a continuous track is made that will play that sentence.

Are there any user friendly programs for doing this sort of thing?

Thanks!
Michael
web pages allows you to put those 6 files in one place so that other people can put them together in varios ways.

you do not need a web page to do what you want but a program that concatenates files into larger ones.

what you want to do will probable work fine with song files. it will also work great with text files, but when you start working with files that actually execute code then you can only expect disappointing results.

edit:
i see you might have found a solution.

what you want to do will probable work fine with song files. it will also work great with text files, yes that's all I really want.

Do you know of any other free-ware programs I could give a try?

OK, let me try to give an example.
Now I have these six files. I want to then arrange the files in various ways. Lets say one day I want an mp3 that plays continuously as such: "girls are soft". So I need a program that will "glue" those three files into one continuous track which I put on my iPOD. Say then next day I want to get rid of that and update with an mp3 that says "flowers are pink like girls" so I want a program that I click on those words and they are added in that order and a continuous track is made that will play that sentence.


Audacity can do that - no problem at all.
If you've ever used a program called "sound forge", Audacity is basically the same thing

yes that's all I really want.

Do you know of any other free-ware programs I could give a try?
no. sorry. :shrug:

I've never personally tried these fellas but, you can hire a freelancer for any size web or programming jobs here (www.getafreelancer.com)

Do you know of any other free-ware programs I could give a try?
http://mp3wrap.sourceforge.net/

Audacity is pretty much the standard for open source sound editors, although there are plenty of others (http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=mp3+editor&section=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0), most of which seem to run only on Linux.