Accurate cutting of a section of track

[royceballew]

I'm trying to edit a CD by cutting out unwanated sections. Having trouble cutting the exact portion. I select the exact section I want to cut, hit CTRL+X and more is cut than I selected with the cut moving further down the track beyond what I selected.
What can I do?

Using Audacity 1.3.9 in a Dell Dimension 4550 with x86 processor running WindowsXP home edition. with 1.04 mb available physical memory and 1.96GB available virtual memory.

[billw58]

Do you have "Snap to" on?

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

There's also a setting somewhere that will only allow you to cut music on the "CD Boundaries." Now you know as much as I do.

Koz

[royceballew]

Bill:

"snap to" is not checked. Should it be?


Koz:
Have no idea what the "cut music on CD boundries" is or where it is or what it might do.


Been using Audacity for a couple of years--still learning, still supprised by unexpected problems, still wondering what to do, BUT SURELY APPRECIATE HELP FROM THE FORUM.
R.

[billw58]

Do you have a label track below the stereo track, and do you have "Linked tracks" on? Look under the "Tracks" menu to see if "Link Audio and Label Tracks" is checked. This is a known bug in 1.3.9.

Turning linking off will solve the problem but the labels will no longer stay in sync with the audio.

Do you need to use Edit > Cut? Are you going to paste it somewhere else? If not, pressing the delete/backspace key will delete the selection properly even when linking is on.

Do you need your labels to stay in sync with your audio? Do you need labels at all?

For now, the best solution (if, for example, you want to use the labels for the Export Multiple command), is to wait until you have done all of your editing, then put in the labels.

-- Bill

[royceballew]

Bill:

I turned the label track off (only had one label in it but that apparently was enough to cause my problem). And I cut via highlighting what I didn't want using CNTRL+X . It worked fine.

Also unchecked the "link audio and label tracks" for now. Suspect I'll need to recheck it when making labels.

Have a lady organist/composer friend who was commissioned to write a mass in polka rhythm for a Catholic church's 150th anniversry. She has made a "first master" CD while trying out both Catholic and Protestant versions for commercial sales. I'm trying to clean it up to make trial copies for protestant friends. She's good enough to have done concerts at Oxford U. and Westminster Abbey in GB and the Czech Republic had her over this past June to do 50 concerts in 30 days!!!

[billw58]

Also unchecked the "link audio and label tracks" for now. Suspect I'll need to recheck it when making labels.

Turning linking back on will get you one thing: when you change the length of the audio track the labels will adjust to the change. In effect the labels are stuck to the audio instead of the timeline. If you are finished editing there is no advantage to turning linking back on, and it may cause you further grief.

-- Bill