# Question about copying a portion of a song.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 31, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128 "2004-10-31T04:57:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128/1 "2004-10-31T04:57:15Z")

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I’m trying to record only about the first minute of a track on a CD onto a blank CD. I’ve recorded and dubbed plenty of CDs before but have never tried this. I have Easy CD creator 5, or anything else you suggest that I can download. So, I’m sure this is possible, just tell me how.

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**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128/2 "2004-10-31T06:23:40Z")

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Total recorder or similar recording program, record what you want and save it. Open it up in easy cd creator and burn it.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128/3 "2004-10-31T06:27:30Z")

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Rip the track to a computer and edit the file with some sound editor to only have the first minute in it. Then burn the new file to a music cd.

[Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is a very nice and free sound editing program, if you need one.

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**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128/4 "2004-10-31T13:26:37Z")

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I just did this using iTunes, as well. You can pull up the song info, and set the beginning and end times of the track (as in, set it to start 1 minute into the song, and stop 2.5 minutes into the song, for a total of 1.5 minutes. Just making myself clear). When you burn that track, it only burns that portion. Of course, all my music is already in iTunes, so I didn’t have to do any importing, etc. But, it was quite easy.

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-copying-a-portion-of-a-song/272128/5 "2004-10-31T15:11:29Z")

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I was going to suggest Audacity, but I see **Iamthewalrus** has beaten me to it. I use it as my production software at home. It’s pretty flexible and free.

Robin