How do I avoid the extra seconds on the end of a song?

ghanket · Post by **ghanket** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:03 am

I have been converting my old cassettes to digital recently, and have found an annoying 'feature'. Once I separate the individual songs (using CTL-ALT-X), label them, and do 'export multiple' - the length of each song is expanded to end at a 2- or 7-second mark (e.g., a song that lasts 2:55 in Audacity comes out as 2:57; a 3:18 song comes out 3:22). If the next song starts at 3:20 on the Audacity timeline, the first two seconds of it are getting tacked onto the end of the previous song. Is there a way around this? It seems strange, since I used Audacity extensively a few years ago, and don't recall seeing this issue.

Post by **steve** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:05 am

Check which version of Audacity you are using (Help menu > About Audacity)
This sounds very much like a bug from Audacity a couple of versions ago (I think it was 1.3.10).
The current version is 1.3.12
http://audacityteam.org/download/

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