We’re good so far, yeah? Sweet! We’re already more than halfway through today’s exercise. Double-click the WAV file or click once and choose Open to bring the file into Adobe Audition.Īt this point, you should see the waveform of your WAV file appear with bright green peaks atop of a black background with a square grid pattern, like this: Here, you can either use the keyboard shortcut ⌘+O (Command+O) or choose File > Open from the menus at the top left of your application window to bring up the familiar pop-up window which will allow you to select the WAV file we’ll be converting to the MP3 format. Don’t worry, as this will fill in momentarily. With the Adobe Audition application open, there will be lots of empty space. If so, simply click the icon in your dock to launch Adobe Audition. Now I’m going to click the Adobe Audition folder and click again on the Adobe Audition application icon.Īlternately, you could open Finder and navigate to Applications > Adobe Audition CSx.x > Adobe Audition.įurthermore, if you are a regular Adobe Audition user, you may have already chosen to keep the software in your dock for easy access. For sake of keeping things simple, I like to click the Applications folder in the dock of my Mac OS X installation, where all of the applications installed on the computer you’re using will appear.įollow me so far? Excellent. There are several ways to accomplish this first step. I won’t be getting super technical, nor will I be exploring any advanced features, although this software is packed with them! Which brings us to today’s post, where I have created a short, easy-to-use tutorial on using Adobe Audition to open, convert and save WAV files in the MP3 format. Moving forward in time to the early-mid 2000’s, Cool Edit Pro (v2.1) was purchased by Adobe and became known by today’s standards as Adobe Audition. If we were to take a trip down memory lane to a decade where audio editing software was just a budding concept, there was a program called Cool Edit, which later evolved to Cool Edit Pro. Today I’ll be sharing a similar process using a different piece of software that I found in the Applications folder on my MacBook Pro. Some of the most popular blog posts here on the AudioAcrobat Weblog were written on converting WAV to MP3 using Audacity for both Mac and PC.

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