Edit out silence due to buffering

[davmonroe]

I use Audacity to record streaming audio and I'm on dial up, so I end up with an audio file with silent gaps during buffering. Is there a way to find and replace/eliminate these gaps other than manually? Is there a plug-in? I'd even be interested in another program that I can send my audacity created file to that would edit out these gaps.

Any way to get Audacity to pause on silence and ressume on a set sound level?

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

Dave

[kozikowski]

I've never seen one. I have that in one of the paid packages, but it may not be as cool as you think. It's very ticklish to set up and if you do it wrong, it starts taking out places where people take a breath. If you set it wrong the other way, you get tails where some of the gap hangs around. You can't just suck the data gap out because it also takes the natural gaps out of words around the data gap. All sound petty weird.

Koz

[alatham]

There's no way to get Audacity to fix these errors by itself. You'll have to go in and manually delete the silence. Be careful of making discontinuous waveforms.

[richardash1981]

In 1.3.3 there is a Truncate Silence effect for the purpose. It's not perfect for the reasons described, but at least it can cut down on the waiting. Alternatively you can try the Silence Finder in the Analyse menu to mark up the silences and then delete them by hand, but at least it finds them for you.

[Bud]

Hi,

Sometimes, when you play streaming audio or video, it will load up in the temp files. Once it's loaded, it will play the whole thing straight through if you hit the play button. Then you can record it (I've done this). But, some streaming files will wipe the whole thing, so it starts over from scratch, in which case you can't record it without gaps.

Bud