Long periods of silence

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JimHarrod
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Long periods of silence

Post by JimHarrod » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:35 pm

I record onto an 8 track and export onto Audacity. My problem is that at the end of the song there is around a minute of silent time which I cannot get rid of and this is annoying because it transfers with the song to disc. This means I have to listen to a minute of silence in between songs. I have tried cutting and pasting and have searched for a solution. Advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Jim

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Re: Long periods of silence

Post by waxcylinder » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:46 pm

Have you got "Snap To" turned on? If so turn it off (In 1.2.x use Edit > Snap To ... > Snap Off - the indicator is at the bottom of the Audacity window).

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Re: Long periods of silence

Post by JimHarrod » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:59 pm

Thanks snap to is off. I think the problem has solved itself. It seems that by exporting the song as a Wav file into windows media player instead of an mp3 transfers only the song and not the extra silence!

Jim

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