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What I mean is, the start point of an audio clip must be quantized somehow, computers being digital machines and all. Is it to an internal sample rate of 384000, or something else? Entirely an academic question of course. and the answer is quite technical. The start position of clips are defined in...

We're going a little "off-topic" here, but it sounds like your original issue is now resolved, so ... Samples within each audio clip are quantized to exact sample periods relative to the start of the audio clip. Currently, the start of the audio clip can be anywhere (not quantized). This means that...

Some of the files are .wav and some are .mp3 :lol: BTW, how do I check if an audio file is 8-bit or 16-bit in Audacity? You can't AFAIK. I always check it in Foobar 2000, but VLC will show you as well under [Tools -> Media Information -> Codec -> Bits per sample] That said, even if it says 16-bit t...

I'm curious, in samples mode shouldn't "strong snapping" be disabled entirely? That's a bit of an edge case. Personally I think that audio should always be aligned to an exact number sample periods relative to time=0, which would make "strong snapping" irrelevant when time is displayed in sample mo...

I don't see getting much more out of it than you already have, for the reasons I mentioned above. I'm glad that my guide is helpful, but it is worth remembering that it is mainly concerned with remove unwanted audio from otherwise reasonably good quality files. This is related, but much harder. I do...

Oh, and sorry I do see what you were saying about changing the time format. I shouldn't try to read things before I've had my coffee.

For "Snap to clip boundaries" to work, the "Snap To" control must be set to "Off". If it is set to either of the other settings, then the "strong snapping" to time positions (seconds, milliseconds, or whatever) overrides the "weak snapping" to clip boundaries. Aaaaah, that explains what I am seeing...

Unfortunately setting the format to seconds doesn't help either. One interesting thing I DID discover is that a clip I haven't moved is still snappable, but the ones that have been copied and moved are not.

I recorded a short video to demonstrate the behaviour.

Are you referring to this setting in the Selection Toolbar? https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/selection_toolbar.html#snap Unfortunately changing that setting does nothing. The only way to get snapping back that I have found to work is restarting the program. When I say disabling itself, I mean so...

This is in Windows 7 64-bit by the way.