Audacity Forum

Thanks for the answers. Actually after I submitted this question I continued to search the forums and found an old posting that said to use the "stop" button instead of the "pause" button - and that worked! "Cut" was no longer gray! However I will look into other format...

I recorded an mp3 of an internet radio broadcast which I am trying to edit. I have used Audacity in the past for editing wav files and have not had a problem. In this case however, after I select a section to be deleted, "Cut" is grayed out and nothing is cut. Actually most of the drop dow...