Audacity Forum

I click File > Open and find the 39.3MB MP3 file and the purple waves show up in the graph. I click the magnifying glass several times until I can see 30:00. 30:05, 30:10. But, how do I get to the very beginning of this recoding - 0:00? If I click on the timeline bar it just starts playing the recor...

Hi Steve,

Oh, I see now. You need to click the magnifying glass to zoom out. Ok.

That's done.

Now on to how to capture the exact moment of silence in the first hap recording so I can return to that exact spot to then save the 2nd half of the recording?

Thanks so much.

Hi Steve, OK, deep breath. I placed the mouse cursor on the Timeline and chose Ctrl + F and it did nothing - did not zoom out. I then placed the cursor on one of the waves in the top box and did the Ctrl + F and did the same in the bottom wave box and it never zoomed out. The manual seemed to sugges...

Hi Steve, This has me so nervous. I don't know how to save what I've recoded digitally with Audacity and already saved as a .wav file so I could experiment on it. I didn't see any Save File option so I could rename it and use the renamed newly saved file to work on in case I screwed up. I was readin...

Hi there, I've successfully digitally recorded each side of my cassette tape using Audacity. I now wish to cut each side in half (approximately). It's about 39 minutes to a side, so 20 minutes for on file and 19 minutes for toe other audio file. I'd like to avoid awkward stops and starts in editing ...

Hi Gale, For some reason despite placing a check mark next to notify me about a post I didn't receive e-mails about posts here. Anyway, trying to cut to the chase... I'm hoping you can please share the easiest way to accomplish my goals? The goals are to have 2 separate MP3 recordings of Side One an...

Hi there, I'm seemingly back to square one in trying to record a cassette tape. Now when I open Audacity the vertical pin stripe which goes through the graph starts at 15:00 not 0:00 and when I try to drag that pin stripe back to 0:00 with the mouse it brings up the finger which then creates a purpl...

Hi Gale and Steve, Well, I guess I've inadvertent touched the wrong button! :) I think my step-by-step procedure for recrording my need tweaking. I place the cassette tape in the deck and turn the deck on with it connected to the line in on the PC running XP Pro. I open Audacity and click on that mi...

Hi Steve, I needed to delete the first 17 seconds of silence before the music starts at second 18 of the beginning. I did this by clicking on the + Magnifying Glass and then placing the mouse cursor into the wave box *with dark blue colors) and pushing the finger backward from 18 to 0 and then right...

Hi Gale and Steve, May I please follow up with a question about dividing a file in 1/2? I successfully recorded one side of my cassette tape and saved that as a .wav file. I was able to then convert that .wav file (saving it as a different name) into an mp3 but it's 39MB. I want to split that file i...