As someone who is starting to use Audacity for collaborative editing, it would be really helpful to be able to see where the breaks in tracks are. I understand why filling in the gaps is necessary for the compression to work optimally but I wondered whether there might be a way to retain the breaks across compression/decompression of Audacity projects.
My thoughts would be that there are two easy ways to do this:
- Have a marker that would indicate the start/end of a break - a standard pattern inserted into the stream seems logical - that could be added to "bracket" the silences on export and then everything between the "brackets" is simply removed on import.
- Have an independent data file in the project that provides this indexing data, created ahead of compression and read after decompression.