Adding Silent 7 seconds at end?

malik999 · Post by **malik999** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:52 pm

I have edited a clip down to 13 seconds.

When i export the file (.WAV) and open this in windows media player the file is 20 seconds long. i.e. 7 seconds of silence at the end.

Any ideas why this is happening?!

Post by **kozikowski** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:36 pm

<<<Any ideas why this is happening?!>>>

I can guess. Where did you get the clip from? Was it an MP3 or WAV format? Audacity will try to manage a sound file even though it has no real idea what's going on. This leads to confused looks because the failure is way downstream from the actual problem.

Koz

malik999 · Post by **malik999** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:16 pm

Thanks for the tip. Looks like you're right its just Audacity getting itself mixed up.
I guess it is because i have cropped the voice file down in a number of places it then gets confused on its length when i export it.
Solution i have found is to then bring that voice file back into Audacity. Delete those last 7 seconds and resave it out again and it appears to handle that ok

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