Macro Not Selecting Appropriate Tracks

[steve]

My podcast now has spots where the breaths were that have no audio and so it sounds disjointed when listening to it. I wanted to add back in some noise (I’m thinking Brownian) where the breaths were taken out.

You may not need to use a Macro at all. Have you considered using the “PunchCopy.ny” / “PunchPaste.ny” effects instead?

Punch Copy/Paste

A pair of plug-ins for simplifying “punch in” editing. Unlike the standard paste function in Audacity, the “punch” paste replaces the selected audio with just the right amount of pasted audio to match the duration of audio being replaced, thus the speed and timing of the track is not changed by pasting. These plug-ins were developed from a feature request on the forum (https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/alternate-equal-length-paste-command-resolved/28836/1) to streamline the work flow of replaci…