Looping Tracks in audacity?

[wlashack]

hi, i am very new to Audacity and working with sounds si i have one newbie question - is it possible to set to a desired tract to play in loops over and over again during the playback of another track?

for example - i have a 5 minutes long song as TRACK01 and i want it to play as the background; i want to mix it with another TRACK02 which is a short voice like "Hooray Hooray" for example. and i want to mix these two track to play "Hoorah Hoorah" over and over again during the length of the background track.

is this possible?

thanks a lot.

[waxcylinder]

Yes - Audacity is a mult-track editor.

We don't seem to have a Wiki feature or tutorial on multi track recording and editing (there was a post about this in the Feature Request section recently IIRC).

However this tutorial on podcasts is very close to what you need to do: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... h_Audacity

WC

[wlashack]

but there is nothing about looping tracks, what was my question.

[aaronchall]

I can't identify a way to loop, but here's a simple workaround: copy and paste until you have as many repetitions as you want.

You have a sample, so copy it and paste it on the end of itself. Then copy the whole thing and paste. Then copy the whole thing and paste again.

Do this 10 times on a 2 second track and you'll have more than 34 minutes of looping sample.

Good luck!

[waxcylinder]

Sorry wlashack,

I was working in a hurry and didn't your post properly - apologies.

But I think that aaron is right - I don't think there are loop facilities in Audacity (I seem to recall previous posts about this getting negative responses).

Aaron's workaround will work - but to try to avoid click/noise at the joins, try to ensure that the start and end points of the clip start on "zero crossings"

WC

[wlashack]

thanks a lot for help.