I am using Audacity (version 2.0.2 under Windows 7x64 which I downloaded from your website) for the first time. I am creating an audio of a book I have written.
After reading the directions for splitting a recording into separate tracks, I recorded two short chapters and successfully exported it to 2 tracks using the export multi command.
Confidently, I did a full book recording and as I went through I placed a label at the beginning of each chapter. When I used the export multi, as far as I can understand, exactly as described in the manual, it created one single file with the name of the first chapter label. I also read the article in the link for your previous answer and it seems to describe exactly what I have done.
Can you suggest what I might have done incorrectly?
Format is set to MP3 Split Files Based on: is checked on Labels (Include audio before first label is unchecked) Name Files: is checked for Using Label/Track Name
Which is as I read it from the manual.
Incidentally, when I go to Tracks / Edit Labels the dialogue shows me all the labels correctly there.
So far I’m not able to reproduce the problem. I suspect that you are doing something a bit different from what I am doing.
If you’ve not done so already, save that project, then restart Audacity.
Create a new, very simple project and write down the exact steps that you use. Try to recreate the problem in the simplest way possible. Then post step by step instructions for how we may reproduce the problem.
Steps taken:
Open Audacity
File – New
Click on Input Level to check recording levels
Press red spot button and speak
Press yellow square button to stop recording
Place cursor at start of track
Tracks – Add Label at Selection / type track name
Click on Input Level to check recording levels
Press red spot button and speak
Press yellow square button to stop recording
Place cursor at start of track
Tracks – Add Label at Selection / type track name
Click on Input Level to check recording levels
Press red spot button and speak
Press yellow square button to stop recording
Place cursor at start of track
Tracks – Add Label at Selection / type track name
Check labels by Tracks – Edit Labels ( and labels were correctly displayed)
File - Save Project
File – Export Multiple
Format is set to MP3
Split Files Based on: is checked on Labels (Include audio before first label is unchecked)
Name Files: is checked for Using Label/Track Name
And, again it produced a single file.
I would attach the audacity project but it is several folders and files.
Thanks - I see the problem, well a few things really…
First a small point:
You don’t need to select “File > New”. When Audacity is opened it is a new project by default. If you then select “File > New” you now have 2 open projects.
The thing that is causing you the problem is that Export Multiple is designed to be used for multiple tracks OR for a single track with labels. You are trying to use it with both labels AND multiple tracks, and that’s why it is not working as expected.
There are several approaches that you could take, but most similar to your working method would be to not use labels at all. Instead of entering the track name as a label, set the name of the audio track (see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/track_drop_down_menu.html)
Then when you export multiple, use the “Split based on Tracks” option.
That is a real problem for the people writing the documentation. They try their best to make it clear.
There are CD tracks, Audacity audio tracks, multiple “tracks” on an album even if it plays as one continuous “track”. If you record 12 tracks from a tape onto one audio track in Audacity and you add labels in a label track, then export multiple, how many “tracks” have you got?
If recording a book, should each chapter be exported from an aup. file to create a WAV. file as a separate track, then be converted to separate Mp3. files?
As I’m not very familiar with the operation of a CD player, does the above enable the CD player to find any chapter, and how?
For making an audio CD, don’t use MP3. Export each chapter as a separate WAV file.
Ensure that you set your CD writing software to create an “audio” CD, not a “data” CD.
