Audacity Forum

... Application Support Drag the audacity folder to the trash. This will take any custom settings or plugins with it. It's really First Birthday. That help? Koz

So you don't know someone who already knows how to edit? I don't know a good way to drag-isolate. There may be one, but I've never needed it. I do it by drag-delete. Drag-select the portions I don't want and press the DEL key. If you want to club scratch and/or crossfade in addition to just selectin...

... once I get a good foundation set and can get serious about pursuing some real recording. Hey, have a super day! Thanks so much again for all your help! Sheila

Thanks for the help so far...I have made some progress, but the central problem of not being able to select portions of a track still exists. I have imported all 5 songs into Audacity, and have staggered them, stairstep-style, using ...

Exactly what playback device are you trying to use? You could post the information from Help > Audio Device Info... top right of the Audacity menu bar.


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The clicks occur in a lot of different frequency bands. You could try Noise Reduction - you are going to have to do that anyway. You could select and Effect > Repeat a click noise to make it long enough for a Noise Profile. I can get the background very quiet that way if after a first pass of Noise ...

jodowd wrote:... with a "record scratch" sound...

Stereotypical vinyl-record scratches ...
http://freesound.org/people/simkiott/sounds/43404/
http://freesound.org/people/jswonger/sounds/47924/

... of approximately 1-2 minutes of 4 more songs, then end by going back to the last 30 seconds or so of the first song. Thanks again for your help. We're going out to dinner now, then I'll take another stab at selecting later tonight. You can only do something to a track if it is selected ...

... first it says its missing 23 files but the data file is some times not even found There is no data file. There is an AUP file and a _data folder. Help > Show Log... will list the AU files that are missing. Can you start over? Close the project you want to share. Select the AUP file and the _data ...

Thank you for all the help. Whatever I did, it sounds much better. I'm going to save some records to projects. I may edit them later. I will probably have to shave the front and back off unless I get very good at the start and stop. ...