Howto create an empty single track mono aup3 file

Audacity 3 Help Forum
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For our audio-book recording people, we provide a folder containing as many Audacity aup projects as there are book’s elements to be recorded. For example: 001_Title.aup(&.data), 002_Chapter_1.aup(&.data), etc.

Actually I have a linux bash script with a function to create $1.aup file and $1_data folder. For example if $1=“001_Title”, with some echo commands and one mkdir the script creates the xml 001_Title.aup(&.data) with given TRCKNAME=$1.

Now I would like to do the same but with a single track mono well named aup3 file.

There is no problem for Audacity 3 to open Audacity 2 projects. But it would be simpler to be only in aup3 especially when people are saving their projects.

Thanks for your help or guidelines.

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If I understand your question right, you should try creating a template AUP3 file that has a very short clip you need in the format you need, save that template somewhere and have your script make a copy of it and rename the copy.

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Thanks for your suggestion. It would be ok for aup3’s file name but not for aup3’s track name.
I did install sqlite3 but I am really new to SQLite. Question is “where is track name in aup3 sqlite data ?” Still now I did not find any help on the net so some help would be appreciated.

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If it were my project, I think I would give the track a generic name, and in the instructions write “after opening, change the name of the track”.

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The idea is to simplify technical handling as much as possible for our voice-givers. That’s why I would like to have a ready to use aup3’s track named mono project.