Trimming and joining multiple tracks easily?

Special Interest Groups Audio Processing
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I’ve used Audacity a few times in the past for minor trimming jobs. Now I’m trying to take on a larger cut/paste/add project and I’m sorta lost.

I’m trying to make a sound track for skating practice, when the music is on drills are done when its off that’s the rest period. So I need to take 10-15 tracks, cut them down to 2 minutes each, add 15 seconds of silence between them and have them play as a single track. I started working on it and this is what I’m doing open new/trim/copy/paste/generate 15s silence/rinse/repeat. That’s becoming a little tedious and after one set of pasting, my whole track went silent and I had to redo several tracks. :confused:

So what I’m wondering is this, is there a way to automate any part of this process? Is there something I could be doing to make it any easier at all?

Thanks for any help anyone can give!

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Shown with mono tracks, but just the same with stereo tracks.
Use the Time Shift Tool to arrange the tracks like this:
trackpanel000.png
When you export as an audio file, the tracks will be “mixed” to create a single audio file and the gaps between the tracks will be preserved.

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Thank you so much! That makes things much simpler :slight_smile: