Tape recoding: split, numbering and export into single files

Audacity 4
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I’ve installed Audacity 4. Managed to record a tape. Manually cut/split it between tracks. Now I am completely stuck. Can’t get my head around it.

1-How can this be done automatically?

2- Then all the tracks are called audio 1#1. How let Audacity4 automatically give each track its ascending number?
3- Next how export all single tracks instead of 1 big linear file?

Read Audacity ® Manual | Split but It’s all very complicated indeed.

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Is it because of the typo that nobody bothers to react?!

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In Audacity 3 this could be done automatically. This feature (Export Multiple) has not yet been implemented in Audacity 4.

The page in the Audacity 3 manual on how to do this has been removed, and instead there is a link to the new Audacity support site, unfortunately to a non-existent page. Probably because Export Multiple does not yet exist and is needed for this function.

You’ll have to do it manually for now.

  • Select the audio for one track (song)
  • Do File > Export Audio
  • Beside “Type” choose “Export Selected Audio”
  • Name the file
  • Click the “Browse” button and choose a place to save the file
  • Choose the format
  • Choose the appropriate Audio Options for the Format you chose
  • Click the “Export” button

Repeat for each track (song). For subsequent exports you don’t have to Browse the location again and you don’t have to choose the Format, but you will need to remember to choose “Export Selected Audio” each time.

Hope this helps.

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I ran into the same issue when digitizing an LP and trying to save the labeled tracks to separate files. I had to export the audio file, open it in V3 and relabel the tracks, and then export to multiple files.

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The horror stories from people who made the switch I’m happy V3 users haven’t been given the check for updates forced to upgrade Audacity 4 move yet and we can keep with 3 until it’s stable and full featured.

No split to mono audacity 4 it’s no good for tape to begin with you have to use it to split it into a left and right volume them both the same for a phase correction before clicking make stereo track to make it how it sounded again only better because it’s properly phased stereo cassette audio if you can’t make a tape recording a properly channel aligned head azimuth sound in volume editing before making it stereo again then audacity 4 is not fit for purpose for high end tape recordings from standard end equiptment at all.