How to use labels to silence regions of 1 track?

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hi

I have 2 recordings of a discussion, where the main speaker sounds best on recording-1 and the rest sound best on recording-2. Before I discovered that you can label a region, I placed a point label at all the points where I need to ‘switch to the other recording’.
I can’t figure out how to use my point labels to silence half of the regions of one track and the other half of the regions of the other track?
I HAVE tried reading http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/navigation_tips.html and http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_selection.html .
Should I in some way convert all the point labels into region labels?
Can anyone please give me a hint about how to proceed?

I have attached a screen shot showing all the labels.

Best regards,
Henrik R.
Graden af 2-vejskommunikation i mit foredrag.png

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If you have labelled regions like this, AND a point label at the start:
tracks000.png
then you can select both tracks and use “Edit menu > Labelled Audio > Split Cut” to cut (copy and remove) the labelled sections like this:
tracks001.png
then “Tracks menu > Add New > Mono/Stereo track” and past the cut sections into the new track:
tracks002.png
You can now process the two audio tracks independently however you wish.

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OK. But how do I ‘convert’ point labels into region labels?

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grab the little triangle handles and drag left or right (dragging the circle moves the point label)

Just be aware that it’s almost impossible to turn a region label back into a point label. :imp:

WC

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OK. Thank you. But dragging the triangle handle towards another point label doesn’t connect the 2. It just creates a new label near the old point label. That’s not very logical… :confused:

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Not ideal - but if I wanted a range label between two point labels this is what I would do:

  1. Click in the waveform neat one of the labels till I see the yellow sticky marker
  2. drag in the waveform to the other label - and get the yellow sticky
  3. this gives you a selection
  4. Ctrl+B will label that selection
  5. delete the two point labels (right click on the label and select Dlete Label)

WC

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Wow! That was very effective!

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OK. I have labelled every other region as you explained. (But I haven’t deleted the original point labels.) Then I selected 1 track. But when I go to "Edit menu > Labelled Audio > " all sub-menu items are grey and cannot be used. (I even tried closing Audaciy and open it Again.)
What’s the problem?

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Is that the track with the labels or the track with the audio? The labels must be selected. Usually I’d use “Ctrl + A” to select “All”.

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Right! If I select both the label-track and an audio-track all the menu items are active! Thank you.