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I don't think you can do this in Audacity - as Audacity is designed to keep the play-head on-screen when playing (similarly with the record head while recording). The only exception is if you turn on the preference that Bill talked about - but what this does is not scroll once the play-head drops of...

steve wrote:You can trim a specified number of seconds from each end

useful - but no help to the original poster here - they don't know how long an possible front-end silence is but they do know there is a "silence" between the initial spoken number and the audio they want to retain.

WC

MaxFlight wrote:Yea! The team doesn't fool around when it comes to getting things done, it seems. Thank you!

hahaha - don't get too used to it - it's not always like that

WC

BTW this Macro will only work properly if you don't have a silence if 1.0 seconds or greater BEFORE the spoken number. I've been following along without interrupting, but… Does the current Alpha have some form of a Trim (front/back/both) command/Effect which could be run before finding silences? Hm...

BTW this Macro will only work properly if you don't have a silence if 1.0 seconds or greater BEFORE the spoken number. I've been following along without interrupting, but… Does the current Alpha have some form of a Trim (front/back/both) command/Effect which could be run before finding silences? Hm...

1. In Finder rename your current Audacity folder in the Applications folder to say "Audacity Released". That will preserve you existing Audacity installation 2) Go to and download the latest Mac alpha DMG 3) Run the DMG and drag the app over into the Applications folder (do NOT run from th...

I've just logged the bug: https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1861

Peter.

BTW this Macro will only work properly if you don't have a silence if 1.0 seconds or greater BEFORE the spoken number. This Macro (as currently parameterized) just deletes the first block of silence of grater that 1.0 (parameterizable) seconds that it finds. Also you may need to tweak the "sile...

And now that James, the developer, understands the underlying issue for the bug - he's given mee a workaround. The Macro now reads: SelectAll: SilenceFinder:labelbeforedur="0.3" sil-dur="1" sil-lev="26" SelectAll: ShowExtraMenus: ShowExtraMenus: SplitLabels: SelectAll: ...

Not possible to do with Chains ... However with 2.3.0 alpha Macros some of the added commands help us here First the good news. This little Macro does the job: SelectAll: SilenceFinder:labelbeforedur="0.3" sil-dur="1" sil-lev="26" SelectAll: SplitLabels: SelectAll: Curs...