Importing Files

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
1

I want to import a number of seperate audio files from my pc to audacity so they will play one after the other, ready to be burned to a cd. How do I do this please? When I tried it they all played at the same time!

2

Can’t you just add all the files to your CD compilation in your CD burning software?
I’m unsure why you need to use Audacity in this process.

3

Thanks for your reply. I need to edit some of the files - e.g. remove applause - which is why I want to use audacity

4

Just edit each file separately and export each one in “WAV” format (the default export format).

5

Thank you

6

Export Multiple is even more convenient for that. You can export the files at one go.

Gale

7
  • e.g. remove applause - which is why I want to use audacity

First I have to admit that I don’t usually use Audacity for this, but Adacity can certainly handle it…

For “live” recordings I usually make two versions, a full-length concert and individual songs.

The full-length recording can be burned to CD with an application such as ImgBurn. With ImgBurn and a cue sheet, you can have track-markers with no gaps between songs. (That’s the way most “live” CDs are made, and of course concert DVDs don’t have gaps either.)

I usually do some editing to the continuous recording to reduce excessive time (or excessive talking, etc.) between songs. To me 10 or 20 seconds of applause/crowd noise between songs seems about right maximum. To do that I don’t directly edit the original recording, but I “build” a new recording by crossfading-together parts from the original recording.

For the individual tracks, again I’ll copy the song from the full-length recording and make a new file for the individual song. I’ll usually fade-in the crowd noise for about 2 seconds (if there is crowd noise preceding the song). And at the end of the song, I usually like a 10-20 second fade-out of the applause.

Of course, this all depends on what you want and what the existing applause/crowd noise sounds like, and frequently I’ll take some applause from one part of the performance and cross-fade it into the ending/applause of a different song.