How to truncate silence in multiple track? [SOLVED]

[nguyenguyen]

Hello,
I used to “Truncate silence” effect to remove silence but it only remove silence in single track. I have a lot of track, so I cannot remove silence manually. When I choose all track (ctrl + A) and use “truncate silence”, it does nothing.

So how to solve this problem ? Thank you very much !

[Gale_Andrews]

Please don’t forget to give us your Audacity version when asking for help (all three numbers, see the pink panel at the top of the page).

@nguyenguyen

I used to “Truncate silence” effect to remove silence but it only remove silence in single track. I have a lot of track, so I cannot remove silence manually. When I choose all track (ctrl + A) and use “truncate silence”, it does nothing.

Unfortunately Truncate Silence was not designed for the use case of running on multiple tracks one at a time, and did not make that clear. It was designed to treat multiple tracks as a “mix”, so it only removes silence where all tracks are silent.

Truncate Silence in the next 2.1.3 release of Audacity is expected to include a “Truncate tracks independently” checkbox that you enable when you want to treat the tracks one at a time and not as a mix. If you want to try this out now, please download the latest 2.1.3-alpha from the top of gaclrecords.org.uk. Let us know if you try that.


Gale

[nguyenguyen]

@Gale Andrews

Please don’t forget to give us your Audacity version when asking for help (all three numbers, see the pink panel at the top of the page).

@nguyenguyen

I used to “Truncate silence” effect to remove silence but it only remove silence in single track. I have a lot of track, so I cannot remove silence manually. When I choose all track (ctrl + A) and use “truncate silence”, it does nothing.

Unfortunately Truncate Silence was not designed for the use case of running on multiple tracks one at a time, and did not make that clear. It was designed to treat multiple tracks as a “mix”, so it only removes silence where all tracks are silent.

Truncate Silence in the next 2.1.3 release of Audacity is expected to include a “Truncate tracks independently” checkbox that you enable when you want to treat the tracks one at a time and not as a mix. If you want to try this out now, please download the latest 2.1.3-alpha from the top of gaclrecords.org.uk. Let us know if you try that.


Gale

Hello,
I tried it and it works like a charm. Thank you very much, Gale Andrews

[Gale_Andrews]

By the way, there is a workaround in 2.1.2 which is to Edit > Select All, Tracks > Align Tracks > Align End to End, Edit > Select All again, then apply the effect. When you export, the leading silence resulting from the align will be disregarded.


Gale