This seems an obvious question but I’m afraid I cannot find an answer to it in your manuals or on the forum, not one I can understand anyway. There is an FAQ on “how to split a long recording…” but it it seems incomplete. There is an earlier post (on an old version of the program) but the guy found an answer himself and his link just takes me to a generic page.
I have recorded several LP sides onto an Audio CD-RW using a CD recorder and then extracted them to WAV files using CDeX. Opening them in Audacity I see a histogram as expected and the approximate position of the track breaks is apparent. I can create a pointer at any point or I can drag a grey shading over a track. But what next? I tried dragging the shading over a track and pressing clicking Tracks>Add Label at Selection but this just creates a blank grey box below the histogram. There seems nothing relevant in the Edit menu.
I’d be most grateful for your help and apologize in advance if I missed the obvious.
I have Windows 7 and have run the exe download file.
I used a mixture of the methods you suggest with some extra steps are needed.
I couldn’t start the first method as it doesn’t seem possible to create more than one vertical line at one time.
The second method was close to what I’d been doing before. It didn’t work as the exported file still comprised the entire LP side.
But I think your message told me where where I’d gone wrong by mentioning “Labels”. The instructions I needed appear to be under “Label Tracks” in the manual and the problem seems to be that I’d been entering the label in the tiny drop-down menu rather than at the point that opens by default. It is then necessary to press enter then drag back from the end of the next track until the vertical line turns yellow, then repeat the action. Having repeated that for all six (or whatever) tracks so that all tracks are separately labelled, I then went File>Export Multiple, as you concluded method 1, and it did, indeed, create the separate files.
This looks a very good and comprehensive piece of software, just daunting at first because of the many options and the need to become familiar with the language.
I understand what you mean - there is always a “learning curve” when starting with a new piece of software.
If you have a look on the first page of the manual (In the Help menu) you will see a picture that indicates all of the main parts of the Audacity interface. You can click on parts of the picture to take you to the relevant section in the manual.
Also on the front page are some links to tutorials that may help you to get started.
If you get completely stuck there are always people on this forum willing to help
