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I'm creating an audio (voice only) with three sections and want the end user to be able to us it as an MP3 on an iPhone, iPad or any MP3 player. I want them to be able to skip the introduction and go to the next section without having to listen to the whole thing. Any ideas of how do to this? This would be much appreciated

You want navigation chapters.

Nobody has to sit through the show. All those devices have music scroll bars.

I don't know of any chapter management in iTunes other than making a playlist with three items in it and the iWhatever will play them in sequence and you can forward step to the next one easily. Music1.wav, Music2.wav, Music3.wav. It's an end-user setting.

Koz

Thanks, but I think there must be something one does on the recording end to put spaces or breaks between different sections. When I hit next on my iPhone, it goes to the end

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Spli ... ate_tracks

WC

When I hit next on my iPhone, it goes to the end

Of the current selection, yes. It should also go to the beginning of the next segment. That's where you put segment two. You distribute as three songs.

I only know of three ways to Chapter Skip: Music CD, Video DVD and Video BluRay. All the other music players depend on the user to set up a show between delivery of the work and listening.

You do need to make sure you have the only sequence of files in the system. I use date and time. 201202070734.mp3. That's right now. 2012 02 07, 7:30 am. The next file is ...35 and the next one ...36. Chances of having file duplicates on the client's computer is very low (but not zero). Do Not use slash marks in filenames. 2/7/12.mp3 is not a filename.


There is one other, much more complicated way to do this. Distribute as a web page. Then you can use JavaScript and clicking buttons to play the work. MyMusic.html as a file should open in a browser and play.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html
Each of these is a sound clip. They're specialized clips, so they don't play everywhere, but that's the idea. JavaScript will let you gang the clips so they play one after the other.

Koz

Ok, it's getting clearer. Now I need to know how to create segments on one MP3. So that "next" goes to the next segment. Can you tell me how to do that?

Thanks so much for your help.

Gary

Is there a way of marking separate 'tracks' while it's being recorded? I'd like to split a recording into separate sections while it's being recorded, so when the user is listening to it, it's easier to navigate to the next section...

seldanne wrote:Is there a way of marking separate 'tracks' while it's being recorded?

Ctrl+M then Enter.
(see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Label_Tracks#play )

Thanks!!!

Really good post have learn't a lot as I am trying to record a book , is it possible to split down the sections again. So like you could click on a chapter in the index (playlist) and it would list the number of each page that was in the chapter? So it would be like a sub directory I am trying to record a document for work so people may need to go to a individual page to recap-if it can't be done in Audacity would it be something that could be build in as a adaptation? Is there a cheep program that is more suited for recording books/documents?