Also new to Audacity… also running Windows 10… just trying to digitize all my vinyl and gradually coming through the learning curve (agonizingly at times) with pretty good results so far. But I’m spending A LOT of time on the outset spinning my wheels on certain minor tasks… once I have them down, I’m cool.
Silence Finder… Has proved to be a bit cumbersome so far, so I tend to mark and label the gaps between songs manually. Eclectic tastes… I listen to a lot of traditional folk music, which includes a good deal of a capella vocals — lots of it solo, which means ultimately means LOTS OF SILENCE. I therefore spend more time REMOVING splits than adding them manually.
I’m currently grappling with speeding up entry of metadata. I just downloaded MP3Tag and have NOT found it to be so user friendly on the outset. Plus, when I seek help from the website or forum, I find very technical and cryptic solutions — not really helpful since I’m neither computer nor audio tech-savvy. So far it’s like the Marx Brothers’ “A Day at the Races” when Groucho needs to buy a whole series of large books to decipher an encrypted tip on a horse. Questions:
-Is MP3Tag only applicable to my tracks once I have exported them to my library (which I do in WAV format, which it supports… supposedly)?
-Is there an easy way for Audacity to import an album’s metadata and separate track titles (I’d prefer NOT to do this manually, if possible)?
-Is there a way to change the format of my metadata and album art so it will be read by Windows Media Player, iTunes, et. al.?
-Am I better off using MP3Tag to convert my projects to MP3 format (necessary if I want to play them in the car), rather than converting/exporting them directly from Audacity to my flash drive (not a big deal for saving time, but I’m open to any technical advantages)?
-Finally, in Audacity — I save and close a project and then Audacity won’t open it… I often have to open a large series of files — newly separated tracks — which ties up Audacity for for quite some time and rearranges the order of the album’s songs. How do I reopen a saved project without this headache?
I welcome anyone’s wisdom.
Cheers!
—Jim