Censoring a song
 

Anybody think they could censor a song for me? I really want to play Sturgill Simpson's "A Sailor's Guide To Earth" tomorrow at the bookstore but his last track "Call to Arms", which is f*cking rad, has explicit lyrics. I still want to play the album but feel like without that bitchin' last track it's not the same.

Anybody here smart enough to censor the song and send me a file? I would be grateful.

What a bitch.

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Right. Barnes and Noble dude.

Pussy.

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Why is "pussy" censored in that quote but not in my post?

lol

Brilliant qwertyy.

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I done Syria Afganistan Iraq and Iran
North Korea tell me where does it end
Well the bodies keep piling up with every day
How many more of em they gonna send

Well they send their sons and daughters off to die
For some oil
To control the heroin
Well son I hope you don’t grow up
Believing that you’ve got to be a puppet to be a man
Well they cut off your hair and put a badge on your arm
Strip you of your identity
Tell you to keep your mouth shut boy and get in the line
Meet your maker over seas

Wearing that Kim Jong-il hat
While your grandma’s selling pills stat
Meanwhile, I’m wearing my ‘can’t pay my urgent/(pending) bills’ hat

Nobody’s looking up to care about a drone
All too busy looking down at our phone
Our ego’s begging for food like a dog from our feed
Refreshing obsessively until our eyes start to bleed
They serve up distractions and we eat them with fries
Until the bombs fall out of our empty skies

Turn off the TV
Turn off the news
Nothing to see here
They’re serving the blues
Nonsense on my TV
Nonsense on my radio
Hollywood telling me how to be me
The nonsense's got to go




Not perfect, but it's all I could think of.
Replaced words should have same amount of syllables as original words.

Wut.

Weren't you asking to have the profanity removed from Sturgill Simpson's A call to arms??? Never mind. Carry on. Whatever.

:rofl:

Alternatively, substitue every word with '****'.

But, like, an actual recording of the song... cause what's he gonna do with that?

I thought he was gonna sing it somewhere. He just needs a verison with *bleeps*? Audacity is free, in that case.

Sell print outs of it. It's Barnes and Noble, after all.

I was asking if anybody could edit the audio file to mute out the swear words so I can play that in my store. Why would I ask for somebody to come up with words?

EDIT: Jesus Christ...

I tried doing that **** but couldn't get it to work which is why I'm asking for help here.

Never mind. It's late where I am right now. I'm at ~60% mental capacity.
Must be nice to have a job where you can just play whatever you like.
I recommend Pig Destroyer.

Were you trying to turn vocals down at the swear words or add in beeps?

Whatever does the trick, I suppose? I'm wondering if it would sound good without having a separated vocal track to work with.

People can isolate other portions of the tracks with isolated tracks..

Exo, you should totally sing at work. Just belt that **** out.

I can't play whatever I like. I like swear words. Hence this thread. Go to bed.

Preferably no beeps. Just muted.

Can't help you. I don't know how to isolate something in the recording.

Play this at work. No swear words and it's musically inoffensive.

I've heard of this method before:



... but havent' made it acutally work well. I t depends on where the vocals are placed in the mix, so it doesn't work for all tracks.

Looking around on Youtube, that particular Sturgill song is the one they won't let me download, so I can't run the experiment. Seems like a useful method though.

I tried it and the program wouldn't let me do some functions that were instructed to be done in the how to articles I've found which is why I want somebody to do it for me because I suck.

Here's how to not suck: be sure to hit stop and not pause before doing any edits because it will keep you from doing anything if you have it paused.

I wish someone had told me that tidbit and saved me months of frustration with Audacity.

Interesting.

Two things might be the cause: Either you didn't properly mark an area before trying to use an effect that requires a marked area, or else you tried to manipulate an .mp3 file without having the required .dll file that you have to download separately. I think the second problem is only relevant when trying to export to .mp3. so it's probably the first thing that causes the problem.

I just did it successfully with a track from my computer! Pretty easy, but like I said, it depends on the song. Even if doing it right, it might not work.

EDIT: Being paused is also a no-no :P

Let me know if you still suck after you try not sucking. Maybe I can help you out if you're lame enough.

A member who shall remain nameless helped me. He is the man. You know who you are.

You're welcome.