Padding timeshifted tracks for export?

[usernamenumber]

Suppose I have a session with two tracks that I've offset from on another with the timeshift tool. So maybe one starts at 00:00 and is 01:00 long and another starts at 00:15 and is 00:05 long. If I do an Export Multiple on this session, what I end up with is a one-minute track and a five-second track. Is it possible to have these tracks be automatically "padded" so that I end up with two one-minute tracks, one of which just contains a five-second clip starting at 00:15? My current process is to create a track of silence equal in length to the longest track in the session and then past sound effects and whatnot into it. Needless to say, that gets a little tedious, so I just want to make sure I'm not missing something.

Thanks!

[kozikowski]

Mute or silence the unneeded tracks and export the whole composite?

Koz

[waxcylinder]

Just be careful with the Mute.

In 1.2 Audacity does not honour the mute on export (though it does when you play the project). This is a known bug which is fixed in 1.3.x

WC

[usernamenumber]

Replying and hopefully bumping for some more feedback.

(EDIT: apologies to kozikowski, I upon re-reading your response, I see what you're getting at when you talk about muting and compositing-- still, bumping in the hopes that there's an easier way...)

Exporting composite isn't what I'm going for. What I need to get from the exporting process is a separate MP3 for each track. The thing is that I need all those MP3s to be the same length, and by default they're not. If there's any way to auto-pad clips in this way, or any technique that's easier than creating several long tracks of silence and then pasting them in it would help me immensely.

Thanks!