Chopping lots of clips out of a file

[csbc]

I am quite new to sound and need to cut out and rejoin lots of fragments from a 30 minute sound file of interviews. I have been through the file which is of an interviewer with four interviewees and listed timings for each speaker. I want keep just clips from the two main speakers.

There are about 25 clips I want to keep and though they are all in order within each speaker the two speakers are mixed up.

Can anyone suggest a suitable strategy?

Thanks CC

[steve]

Mark the sections that you wish to remove using "region labels" http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Label_Tracks
When you have marked all of the regions to be deleted:
Click in the label text of the first label
Press ENTER to un-select the label text
Press the "Delete" key or "COMMAND + K" to delete the label and the audio section.
Press the Tab key to move to the next label position
..
Tab > DEL > Tab > DEL ....

[csbc]

Thank you so much Steve.

I assume I then end up with one file of all the bits I need to separated out into the two voices.

Would it then be best to make a dup of it and on the original delete one voice and on the copy delete to the other?

Cheers, Colin

[steve]

If you want to separate out the voices, after each delete press COMMAND + i
This will make a "split" at each delete point.
Tab > COMMAND+K > COMMAND+I > Tab > COMMAND+K > COMMAND+I > ....

If you then create an empty new track (must be mono/stereo the same as the original track) you can use the "Time Shift" tool (F5 key or the double headed arrow button <-->) to drag clips from one track to the other.
Note that an audio clip cannot be dragged to a new track if the entire audio clip is selected.

[csbc]

Thanks again Steve, I look forward to trying it out.

Cheers,

Colin