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I thought I'd give the 'find silence' feature a shot as I had a file here with numerous silent spots. While it did find many and mark them, I decided not to use the markers afer all. After exporting multiplies I discovered all the 'silent marks' also exported. I really don't need that. I tried playing around to remove just the silent marks, but no luck. Someone can tell me how to remove just the silent markers, right? I am running the newer 1.3.11 version here. Thanks...

Edit > Undo didn't work? If you did production after you performed the silent find, then I believe you need to back up through all the effects until you get to Silent Finder.

Koz

There's a new feature in the Analyze function in 1.3.11 called Sound Finder iit's based on the Silence Finder, but rtaeher than marking the silences it marks the chunks of sound with "range labels" - See this recently added bit in the manual http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... find_sound

Give it a try - feedback on how well it works for you would be useful.

WC

I am working off two differant PC's here....mine in the basement that has the Audacity file on it, and this PC, which has the internet access, so I need to go back downstairs and view things. From what I recall when I would left click on the 'silence marker' and then use the delete function it would delete the entire sound file. Not good, but at least I could always 'undo' and regain everything. All I want to do is remove the markers so when I export the file I don't have all those portions following along. I am going to go back to the other PC and see if for certain if I was selecting in the bottom window, the label window....I can always start over, delete this file and relaod it again. I have the file on a flash drive, so it's easy to load back on. I guess I would like to learn how to accomplish this as a way of becoming more adept in Audacity. I'll also try using the 'find sound' aspect of things...and see what I like about that. Thanks everyone for the help here.

Norm Mast wrote:From what I recall when I would left click on the 'silence marker' and then use the delete function it would delete the entire sound file. Not good, but at least I could always 'undo' and regain everything. All I want to do is remove the markers so when I export the file I don't have all those portions following along.

Click in the text portion of any label to edit the text. Delete the text. Once all the text has been deleted, one more press of the delete key deletes the label itself.

-- Bill

Bill,
If it's a simple as you say, and it works here..I am forever en-debted to you....I will try that later on in the day here....What I ended up doing is deleting the file from the PC, and then reloaded from the flash drive where I had originally transeferred it to from a laptop. Thanks once more...for every ones help here.Good forums to get help from are 'rare' , but this site ranks pretty high up there!

Guys, I am looking for some enahncements.

I use this tool for my class recordings to make the podcasts for offline listening for students. But many times we forget to stop the recording during class discussions, coffee & lunch breaks and the recording will be going on and on. The format we use is mp3.

I need the features like
-> "find silence with some criteria and then remove the silence"
-> "find silence with some criteria and then play it to verify if the finding is really a silece!! because the db level or seconds I selected does not meet the criteria and I need to experiment couple of times before I arrive at my criteria"

The one you have currently "Analyze --> Silence Finder" works great for the criteria to some extent, but I am not able to figure out how can I delete the silence and save the file which reduces the file size and I can make better podcasts.

Please help.

vishwaes wrote:I am not able to figure out how can I delete the silence and save the file which reduces the file size and I can make better podcasts.

Check that you have Audacity 1.3.11 (or later) - "Help menu > About Audacity"

Use "Analyze menu > Sound Finder" - this will mark regions where there is sound.
Ensure that the label track is selected and use "Edit menu > Labelled Regions > Split" - this will split the recording at the ends of the labels.

Double click on each "silent" section to select it, then press the Del key to delete it.

"File menu > Export" to export your final file.