Export selected audio in macro

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Hello,
I’m trying to create a macro which includes ‘Export Selected Audio’, however I cannot find this command in the choose window of the macro manager.
Is there another way I can include this specific command in a macro?

Thanks.

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Personally, I find that working with macros I always seem to be working around some limitation.

Try this: Select the audio in question. Then Duplicate. Then Mute/Unmute Focused Track. Perhaps others will have better ideas.

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What I would do in the macro is:

  1. Select
  2. Trim Audio
  3. Export
  4. Undo

Step 4 should restore the full untrimmed audio.

Peter.

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Exporting is usually the final command in a Macro, so in these cases you can just do:

...
SelectTime: <parameters>
Trim:
ExportWav:

If it’s not the final command, then as waxcylinder wrote, add an Undo: after the Export command.

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The problem with these combinations of commands is that Audacity does not present the window to name exported selected audio, as it does if I use the commands ALT-F + E + R. Export as WAV does not seem to function in the same way as the commands above.

6

If it did that it would be impossible to do unattended batch processing because it would be waiting for user input. Why do you want to use a macro?

7

I’m editing a batch of samples that I recorded in octaves. I have a select audio macro already but then I’d like one that does export the selected audio (commands ALT-F + E + R) so that I can name each exported audio file manually.

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If you need to name the file, just use the normal File menu command rather than a macro. Optionally you can set up a keyboard shortcut for the Export Selected command.

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Using a keyboard shortcut did the trick. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

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