Click sound in place of cut

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi

I want to cut and paste a piece of audio into another track but there is a a click sound where the pasted portion meets the original.

I imported both tracks into Audacity, selected them both and clicked Normalize > Remove DC Offset.
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Then i selected the region of audio to paste into another track and clicked Edit > Find Zero Crossings.
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Then i used shortcut CTRL+X to cut selected region and pasted into new window.
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I removed unnecessary track, selected correct track and chose Edit > Find Zero Crossings.

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I used CTRL+X, pasted into the first track and clicked vertical line to join both tracks.

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I would be grateful if you could check out attached Audacity project and write me what i’m doing wrong.

https://we.tl/t-qI5oUpdnxH

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Not sure but maybe you would avoid the click by cutting where the wave crosses zero. Press “z” repeatedly to move selection edges to a zero crossing.

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Thank you for answer. So i have to press “z” repeatedly after i select the region and then paste it into the first track?

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Usually cutting/splicing at the zero-crossings will take care of that, but often the left & right channel zero crossings don’t exactly match, or maybe there is some other issue -

A [u]crossfade[/u] (fade-out, fade-in, and overlap) will almost always make a smooth splice/transition and it can be just a few milliseconds long if you don’t want to hear the actual crossfade.

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I placed each segment on a different track and faded out the end of first clip and faded in the beginning of the second clip and slide each into position (yellow vertican line) but i still had the click sound.