I’ve just installed the newest audacity, but I’ve already had a small pain.
In the older audacity (2. something), I think you could double click on the space before an audio clip or between 2 audio clips in order to select exactly all of the space between clips or before clips (if no audio clips are before it), and then by pressing backspace or delete you could remove this part, but I cannot do that in the new one.
I would like to have a way in order to remove the space before the first clip. But sliding it back is not good because it doesn’t easily snap exactly to the beginning. And I can move the clip into the beginning, something you could also do in the earlier audacity.
Allow me to select the whitespace before an audio clip or between 2 audio clips by double clicking on this space. Thanks
AFAIK ther has never been a way to select the blank space between or before clips.
You should be easily able to select the space between clips or before the first clip with click&drag, using the yellow snap guides to aid your accuracy.
You should then be able to delete the selected blank space - BUT in order for the Delete to work and the clips to the right to move you need to go to Tracks Behaviors preferences and turn on Editing a clip can move other clips. For some strange reason Muse turned that behavior to be off by default - in earlier Audacity versions it was on by default.
The attached macros will do what you want. Click in the whitespace you want to remove then invoke the macro. There is a special macro for removing whitespace before the first clip.
Click the “Import” button, navigate to where you stored the downloaded macro TXT files, and import them.
Close the Macro Manager
Go to the Audacity Preferences, then the Shortcuts section. Find the macros in the list and assign a keyboard shortcut to them. Note that you can use an unmodified key to make it easy to invoke the macros.
Thanks guys, I tested with older versions and I cannot find this functionality either. I guess my mind just made it up. Would be handy though, as right now it doesn’t seem to do the smartest thing. Having it be more contextually aware of where the cursor is when double clicking seems better.
And the macros work too, thanks billw58 . Question out of curiosity, could you (is it possible to) make a macro that detects whether the cursor is on an audio clip, and if it is, select it, and if it isn’t, check if there’s an audio on the right, and if there is, check if there’s an audio clip on the left, and if there is, select the space between the 2 clips, and if there was no audio on the left, select the space between the start and the clip on the right? Because then it kind of does what I want double click to do.
And then maybe a triple click selects multiple audios which are next to each other.
Would be handy though, as right now it doesn’t seem to do the smartest thing. Having it be more contextually aware of where the cursor is when double clicking seems better.
. Question out of curiosity, could you (is it possible to) make a macro that detects whether the cursor is on an audio clip, and if it is, select it, and if it isn’t, check if there’s an audio on the right, and if there is, check if there’s an audio clip on the left, and if there is, select the space between the 2 clips, and if there was no audio on the left, select the space between the start and the clip on the right? Because then it kind of does what I want double click to do.