Is it possible to add a “Snap To” of 1.8 seconds which corresponds to one revolution of an LP? This would facilitate editing scratches and skips or other anomalies. 45’s rotate every 1.3333… seconds, and 78’s every .76923+ seconds if those were to be added. Another solution is a user editable value.
Any thoughts?
Labels have a weak “snapping” effect (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_selection.html#snapto)
You could create “regular interval labels” http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/regular_interval_labels.html
But there are easier and quicker ways of getting rid of clicks and pops. I used tio do mine manually until Koz steered me in the direction of Brian Davies’ ClickRepair. It costs a little burt produces almost magical results amd it saves loads of time.
See this sticky thread: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/click-pop-removal-clickrepair-software/1933/1
WC
Thanks for the replies.
I agree about Click Repair and registered it well before my 30 day trial ran out. Just a little more than the cost of a new LP.
Without setting the values overly high it can miss a deep scratch. Skips are another animal all together. I’m not sure how to add successive labels from a current cursor position. I generally type 1.8 into the length box then click to the end of the hi-lighted section but that isn’t very accurate.
Rusty
Are you talking there about Audacity or ClickRepair? Audacity’s Selection Toolbar is accurate, but as Steve said you would be better to use Analyze > Regular Interval Labels… to create the labels. Turn off its last option to “Adjust label interval to fit length”.
You can use Effect > Repeat… to repeat labels, but not without creating audio for the label as well.
Gale
Quite clearly Rusty is talking about Audacity.
ClickRepair doesn’t have labels or do anything with them. It is very focussed tool that takes in an audio file, processes it to remove clicks&pops, then spits out a cleaned-up audio file.
WC
Yeah, an Audacity tool.
Two scenarios are;
When there’s a nasty scratch I mark it then use the necessary tools to clean it up. Then I’m ready to jump ahead 1.8 seconds to the next occurrence of that scratch and repeat the cleanup. I have also had on rare occasions an LP skip backwards several times until I was able to coax it on. Cleanup takes some multiple of 1.8 second deletions to cut out the repeated music.
Rusty
I don’t use ClickRepair, so I could only “assume” Rusty meant Audacity, despite (s)he only mentioned ClickRepair in that post. 
I use Goldwave for click and noise removal when Audacity can’t cope.
Gale