Audacity Forum

i'm trying to edit a single-track concert recording into multiple tracks, cutting and pasting each track into its own separate file, exporting them as .wav files, and then burning them to a cd. (there might be an easier way to do this, but i haven't found it yet.) up until now, i've had no problems with gaps between the songs, since i set the gap in either iTunes or Toast to 0 seconds. but for some reason, on my last project, audacity is adding two seconds of silence after i export the snipped track to a .wav file. if nothing else, i guess i could go edit these gaps out, but is there a setting that may have been changed that would cause audacity to do this?

i'm running leopard 10.5.2 on a macbookpro, but this problem started before i upgraded from 10.5.1.

thanks!

<<< audacity is adding two seconds of silence after i export the snipped track to a .wav file.>>>

And you know this because you opened up the exported WAV file in QuickTime and measured it there, or you re-opened it in Audacity again?

It's amazingly suspicious that the error is two seconds. That's exactly the gap that Red-Book compliant Music CD burners add between selections if you leave all the defaults applied.

While the selection is opened in QuickTime, press Apple-I (info) and see if the exported song is in the binary format you think it is.

Koz