Completely removing silence?

[RedPenguin]

Alright, to explain, I don't mean from mp3s or other audio already recorded like a song or something.

I mean after I record from something like a scanner or or something else on my Line In, where you have no sound at all at certain parts of the recording. I want to remove those spots.

I don't want to remove spots where you hear silence like in between people's words in a record, only pure silence where the Waveform I believe they call it, is nothing but a straight line.

I know you can do this easily by hand for small files, but if you have a long recording, I want to know if you can pretty much automate it.

[kozikowski]

Audacity 1.3.5 has a tool called Effect > Truncate Silence. You get to pick how long and how silent before the tool kicks in. It's not available in Audacity 1.2.

Before you do this, I would probably run Normalize > Remove DC Offset... on your show. Nothing like doing extensive automatic effects and find that each one clicks or pops.

Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 can both be installed, although you can only use them one at a time.

Koz