Audacity Forum

Can anyone explain to me what the difference is between Importing Audio and Importing Raw Data? Can both be used interchangable with respect to .wav files? Is there a preference? Many thanks.

Actually, I think cut and paste may be the only way you can stick two songs on the timeline one after the other. But do you want that? Koz I just want to simply see them displayed as such. : **I'd like to be able to view a folder's (a compilation CD or podcast, etc) worth of tracks. **In a linear (...

waxcylinder wrote:Import your first track, then move the cursor to the far right hand end of the track with the double arrow icon (like the FF on a tape/CD player). Then import your second track - etc.WC

Thanks, but I tried that and they still stack. I attached a screenshot.

Thanks stevethefiddle! I'll give it a shot when I get home tonite.

Still curious though how to import in a left to right manner rather than stacked. -Alright, this is driving me nuts. Can anyone help me with this?

I'm quite new to Audacity, so ignore me if I'm flat off base.

If you have already tracked the files, and you hear a slight space b/w tracks, you may be hearing sector boundary errors (SBE's). Programs like Exact Audio Copy (EAC) have functions that detect and remove these quickly and painlessly.

I don't quite understand what you did, but "Normalize" just changes the overall volume so the hottest part of a track comes out to a preset level. It doesn't change the relationship between the songs. They all go up or down the same amount to make the worst one come out right. Koz After importing a...

I'm new to Audacity (and PC based audio in general) and have a couple of questions/problems. I was reccomended Audacity to serve a particular purpose, but I'm usure about most of the terminology so using the HELP feature and indeed the search function here, has proven mostly fruitless for me. I've b...