Multiple label tracks export

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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When multiple labels tracks are present, I’ve found that File>Export Other>Export Labels… will produce a text file with each label track appearing sequentially.

At times I’d like to export just one label track – just as we can with audio tracks. Is there a way?

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By the way, I find labels one of the most powerful features of Audacity – I recently started using them to line up subtitles to the audio from a video and because of the excellent zoom in/out features of audacity, I find this method of subtitle editing better than any of the video editing tools I’ve used. Audacity is awesome.

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There’s a plug-in HERE that exports labels and has a few more features than Audacity’s built-in label exporter.

It does not support exporting a single label track, but it does support including the track number, which makes it much easier to see which labels belong to which tracks.

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Did you select one of the label clips before extracting?

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yes, I tried that. It didn’t help

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Steve,

Thanks. I did download it and added it to the folder where my other .ny files are stored. But even though I tried restarting Audacity, it still didn’t work, always giving me a %4f error when I ran it.

But don’t worry, I don’t think I’d use this anyway. Since I have to go extract from the label.txt file, it’s really not difficult to find where one ends and the next begins. I rarely have more than 2 or at most 3 label tracks.

Thanks anyway

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So a workaround fior you would be:

  1. Delete the label tracks you don’t want to export
  2. Export Labels
  3. enough Undos to restore the label tracks deleted in Step 1

Peter

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And see this still open issue that I logged three and a half years ago:

Peter.

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Thanks for this work around – I came to that myself and it does work well. Little scary to rely on that, especially after hours working on the labels!

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Indeedy

For belt & braces add a step zero:

  1. File > Save Project > Backup Project

Peter