Audacity Forum

I have found a gtk-tool that let you do non-destructive simple editing called mp3splt-gtk. Quite ugly and a bit unintuitive but it does the job. That's what I use. With the graphical interface installed I found it very easy (intuitive) to use - (personal taste?) - but yes, it does the job (works wi...

(Disclaimer - I'm not an expert on this sort of thing.)

The errors seem to be related to the graphics card - can you update your graphics card drivers?
You may need to use proprietary drivers for the graphics card.

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ng_devices

How about burning to CD. Some CD burning programs (such as Nero) allow you to put silences of user defined length between each track (or you can pause the CD player). Most CD burning programs will insert a 2 second pause between tracks by default. Limitations: The maximum number of tracks on an audi...

The site seems to work better in Chrome than in Firefox, worse in Opera and very poor in Safari (tested on Linux). I suggested Firefox because that website is rammed with adverts, flash scripts and other annoyances which can easily be blocked using Adblock Plus and Flashblock. Chrome does not have t...

By far the best way to extract music from a CD and save as a file is to use a "Ripper" program. A very good free one is C-Dex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

1 minute of CD quality stereo sound is about 10MB. 1 minute of CD quality mono sound is about 5MB 1 minute of reasonable quality stereo sound in MP3 format (128kbps) is about 1MB 1 minute of reasonable quality mono sound in MP3 Ogg format (64kbps) is about 500kB 1 minute of low quality mono sound in...

It's come up a few times over the last couple of years and in each case it was related to graphics card drivers.

BrutalAl wrote:Or is my best bet to simply use a software designed specifically for tagging (i.e. have them tagged after exported)?

Yes, that's your best bet. Tagging in Audacity is OK for occasional use, but there's no way I'd use it for 300 songs.

Irish wrote:However, you will have to go through manually increasing the length of the silences.

The quickest way to do that is to Generate silence for the first marker, then copy that silence (Ctrl+C). Once you have copied the silence, you can paste it by simply clicking where you want it at pressing Ctrl+V