I’m using Audacity 2.1.0 on a Dell Inspiron running Windows 10. When I attempt to select and edit a section of a track, for some reason Audacity selects that section for ALL tracks. I only want to edit a section of one track e.g. to move it forwards or backwards. How do I do that without doing the same to ALL tracks.
Many thanks
Chris
Select the track by clicking just right of the up arrow.
Time Shift Tool (sideways black arrows) will only move a whole track. If you have to time-shift a partial track, you’ll need to copy (Control-D Duplicate) the track and then cut them up into moving and non-moving parts.
Koz
Hi Koz,
Many thanks for your suggestions. I clicked just right of the up arrow - i.e. on the clock (?) That cause the track to be selected (highlighted in grey) and also changed the background of the other track to be set to a wallpaper of clock faces (?). I left click on the track at the point I wish to start editing and drag the cursor to the right to highlight the section of the track that I want to remove. The other track is also selected and when I hit the delete button it deletes the section in BOTH tracks.
I used CTRL-D to duplicate the track and tried to select and edit that track - but all that happened was that all THREE tracks were selected and edited. However, I had a look around the various settings on the menus and saw that in the TRACKS menu Sync-Lock Tracks was ticked. I un-ticked it and this has solved the problem - I can now left click on a point on a track, drag the cursor to the right and the only track that is selected is the one I want. The other tracks are NOT selected. So it seems that the Sync-Lock Tracks facility causes ALL tracks to be edited at once.
I’m not sure whether making this change has any unforeseen consequences in other areas of Audacity that I have yet to encounter, but at least I can move forward with my editing.
Many thanks
Chris
PS are you a member of the Audacity Support Team or a user of the software?