Nowadays, labels are been exported with the extension txt, while the internal format would be tab separated values, which it can be easily imported into a spreadsheet for faster editing. However this requires changing the extension before.
It would easier to have either, a different extension (CSV, although it is not comma separated, I know) or a compounded extension (like .labels.txt)
- Most good spreadsheet apps support space separated variables in .txt files.
- “.labels.txt” is not a valid file extension (only one dot is allowed in a file extension)
- “.txt” is the correct extension for a plain text file.
- If you have an application that requires “.csv”, it is trivial for you to modify the files.
- Audacity does not use tab separated values internally, it uses XML (example below)
<labeltrack name="Label Track" isSelected="0" height="73" minimized="0" numlabels="10">
<label t="0.0000000000" t1="0.0000000000" title="01Label"/>
<label t="0.7314285714" t1="0.7314285714" title="02Label"/>
<label t="1.4628571429" t1="1.4628571429" title="03Label"/>
<label t="2.1942857143" t1="2.1942857143" title="04Label"/>
<label t="2.9257142857" t1="2.9257142857" title="05Label"/>
<label t="3.6571428571" t1="3.6571428571" title="06Label"/>
<label t="4.3885714286" t1="4.3885714286" title="07Label"/>
<label t="5.1200000000" t1="5.1200000000" title="08Label"/>
<label t="5.8514285714" t1="5.8514285714" title="09Label"/>
<label t="6.5828571429" t1="6.5828571429" title="10Label"/>
</labeltrack>