Audacity Forum

The way I read this, you should be creating a new show as a second track below the original. Select the track by clicking just right of the up arrow. Then you can do all your management and editing on that second track without affecting the original on track 1. You can listen to one track only with ...

You can select one track without the other by tapping just right of the up arrow. You can play only one or only the other with SOLO and MUTE.

Koz

Many of us faced with this job open the two songs one above the other and slide the bottom one sideways with the Time Shift Tool (two sideways black arrows) until the end of one matches the start of the other. Screen Shot 2018-05-09 at 20.22.59.png Audacity will smash the two together when you expor...

the "Go To" method brought me to the same place as my screenshot

That can happen if you leave off the tilde (~) at the beginning of the address. That's a UNIX abbreviation.

Koz

Problem is this is a song with backup music playing in the background. I think you're the poster child for not adding to the end of someone else's post. You have a different impossible problem. Audacity can't take a performance apart into individual instruments, voices or sounds. If the posted voca...

Am I toast?

I agree. Yes.

That's why all the responses are to prevent you from doing it again. Whatever your conditions and equipment are, they're not up to the job.

Koz

r-a-v-e review from that job, so… So you win. The crazy-making clients are the ones that have no idea what they want. Re: Leave your system alone. Roger that. I can't stress that enough. Most new users trying to read commercially would kill to be able to record with that quality. I use headphones. ...

The time marker is frozen until I start e.g. a video

Correct. Until you start one, there is no bitstream to record.

Koz

Am I crazy? No. You didn't follow instructions. The library you want is hidden and you have to reach it by the method I illustrated. I think you can also reach it via the terminal/command line if you're really into pain. Last login: Mon May 7 11:41:34 on console lucille:~ koz$ pwd /Users/koz lucill...

Thank you.

Sometimes the show or presentation will dictate the direction we go with questions.

Why do you need a noise gate?

Koz