mp3 player as a coach and a stop watch

[ptoot]

Hi all,

Music on my underwater mp3 player makes my training sessions a lot nicer. Now I would very much like to use it as a timing device for my CO2 DYN's, imagine recording an mp3 file called DYN4x25m50s.mp3, containing:

"Prepare for 4 laps of 25m dynamic, starting every 50 seconds.
Off in 10 seconds, .... 5 4 3 2 1 BEEP
.... (40 secs later) ....
Off in 10 seconds, .... 5 4 3 2 1 BEEP
.... etc."

and the next song in my playlist would then be DYN4x25m45s.mp3 etc.

What I need: An mp3 recording program, that allows me to copy sound samples like countdowns, beeps, spoken instructions and paste them at certain positions.

Preferably freeware, if possible running on a Mac ;-)

Just spoken instructions can be pretty boring. It would be nice to mix the training instructions with regular music. Nice to have.

Another use for it would be as a 'pacer', sounding a beep for every arm, leg or fin stroke. I don't have a coach to correct me and my strokes are irregular, so a bit like:

Prepare for 50m DNF, 3 strokes per lane in xx seconds, 5 4 3 2 1
kick ... ... arms .... legs .... arms ... legs ... arms ... TURN ..
kick ... ... arms ... etc.


I could prepare DNF sessions with 5 4 3 or 2 arm & leg strokes per 25m

Yet another great use would be STA tables...

Any suggestions what program I could use in order to achieve this?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Siku]

'Garage Band' is very easy to use and lets you multi layer music, speech etc. I thought it came as standard on all macs.

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You can simply drag and drop MP3s into it, then cut them up, copy paste move around etc.

Easiest way to record voice is with you phone I guess.

Let us know how you get on and any creative ideas you come up with. And how it affects your training of course!

 

[ptoot]

Thanks a lot Siku, working on my first mp3 now

 

[ReefTroll]

Let us all know how you go mate.

 

[weechimpy]

Audicity is a free audio editor which is very powerful

 

[Apneaddict]

feel free to post any mp3s created here for all to use! :t

 

[MartinTee]

I didnt know under water mp3 players existed, how do they sound? I could possibly help out if needed, I have a recording studio and would definately like to test some of this out!

 

[Simos]

I didnt know under water mp3 players existed, how do they sound? I could possibly help out if needed, I have a recording studio and would definately like to test some of this out!

We sometimes use underwater speakers during training, they sound pretty good actually! I like listening to music personally but it's not everyone's taste.

Try Newton Faulkner's cover of 'Teardrops' (Massive Attack) during freediving, it's awesome... (you can find it on YouTube)