I am using 2.0.2 Audacity on a XPsp3 PC computer.
I have a WAV file of a cassette side of songs.
My goal is to mark the individual song begining and multiply save the individual songs.
I marked the track’s songs’ beginings like this:
Use the magnifying icons to expand the track or selected part of the track,
to better see the apparent silence between songs (song beginings).
Click on begining of track.
Ctrl+B. This marks the begining of the first song.
Click just before apparent gap (song begining).
Play. Stop in silence at song end.
Ctrl+B. This marks the begining of the next song.
Continue with track.
File: Export-Multiple
Enter for each song.
Check each song (WAV file) by playing in Windows Media Player.
Each song contained a couple of seconds of the prior song at the begining, and lacked a couple of seconds of the song at the song’s end.
Is this due to some Audacity default that I can change?
Thank you very much for your quick and pointed questions.
I do not have the bottom snap-to box selected.
I tried my method again, and with your comments in mind, I see what is happening:
When I Stop (top, square icon), then Ctrl-B, the Ctrl-B mark is created at my originally selected start place (a little before the silence between songs), not at the stopped location (silence between songs).
How do I Ctrl-b so that the cut marker is the same as the stopped place?
-Nino
Make sure that you are “Stopped” and not “Paused”.
When playback is paused, the “play from” position is still at the place where the playback started, and that is where Ctrl+B will place the label.
You can Stop playback at the current playing position by pressing shift + A. This will also work when playback is paused.
Ok, here’s the problem.
Ctrl-B does not work to stop play and mark the stopped place, because Ctrl-B stops play and marks where the cursor had been placed (not where the cursor has been stopped).
The remedy is this:
I mark the track’s song beginings like this:
Use the magnifying icons to expand the track or selected part of the track,
to better see the apparent silence between songs (song beginings).
(note: sometimes this silence will be part of the song.)
Click on begining of track.
Ctrl+B. This marks the begining of the first song.
Place cursor in middle of apparent silence.
To make sure the silence is between songs:
use Play (from placed cursor position), and
use Stop (stops and reverts to placed cursor position)
If cursor is in correct position,
add Ctrl+B to mark cursor position.
To remove marker, click on marker icon and Delete
If cursor is not in correct position, then
click on new position to place cursor there, and
play to check again.
Continue with track.
Trim the silence off the last track by selecting the silence and hitting delete.
File: Export-Multiple
Enter for each song.
Listen to each song’s begining and end; redo song if necessary.
-Nino
Ctrl+B is not supposed to stop play. It’s supposed to create a marker at the “play from” cursor position, but recording should continue.
To create a marker at the current recording position during recording, use Ctrl+M (also works during playback).
If this is not happening then you may have changed the default key bindings, or the shortcut preferences may be corrupt. The shortcuts can be set back to their defaults in:
“Edit > Preferences > Keyboard”.