Python Script to Convert Tape Folder to Individual Audio Clips

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Just realized yesterday that using the tape.json file in each tape’s folder you can export individual audio clips from all tracks on the tape knowing the exact length and bpm.

I wrote this quick script to slice each track according to the clips, normalize it, and fade by a few samples to export clean clips from the tape for further sampling which is useful for cases when a tape becomes more of a scratch pad than actual song.

I used this to convert +30 tapes and now I have one folder of all clips used as individual samples.

Requires python + two packages (soundfile and numpy)

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This is so very cool. I attempted something similar but my script sucks compared with this. So many thanks for sharing!

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