Hi all,
I’m hoping someone can help me with this strange problem. I pasted several audio files together, resulting in one long project that was 18:33:57.932 in length. The purpose of this project is to listen to all these files, then delete the audio I listened to. So, I listen to a part of this project, press X when I want to stop, then press shift+J to select everything back to the beginning of the project, and control+K to delete that. When I initially pasted these together, they flowed right into one another as they were supposed to. That is not staying the same though. Let’s say for example that each clip is 1:30:00. Let’s say I listen to 0:10:55 of the project. What’s currently happening is that 0:10:55 of silence is added at the end of the clip so that the second clip starts at 1:30:00, when I want the project to simply get shorter, meaning that the second clip should start at 1:20:05. How do I make Audacity behave this way?
Enable " Editing a clip can move other clips" in preferences
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tracks_behaviors_preferences.html
Thanks. I found that just after I posted that message. Now, how do I kill the gap that has already been formed by not having this enabled? When I select that gap then press control+K to delete it, Audacity shows a delete has been performed, but the project length stays the same, and nothing is actually deleted. I feel like this behavior has gotten worse in Audacity 3.X. I used to be able to delete anything from a track, whether it was silence or not. Now, unless there’s actually audio in the track, you can’t delete it, but there’s no explanation in the program as to why the action hasn’t been taken. I would suggest that if this behavior is now the norm, that a dialog pop up saying something to the effect of “You can’t perform this action because there is no audio to perform it on.”
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