Auto Labels

[WeirDave]

I always place a label 1 second before the audio and 2 seconds after the audio. I have looked into making ths automatic but I haven't seen anyway to make it happen but it would be a cool feature and a time save since I always do the exact same pattern.

Thanks,

WeirDave

[steve]

I always place a label 1 second before the audio and 2 seconds after the audio.

Could you post a screenshot to show what you mean. I'm not sure if I'm visualising it correctly.

[WeirDave]

Here is a 1 second before the audio shot

[WeirDave]

Here is a shot of the 2 seconds after label

[steve]

Perhaps the "Sound Finder" tool will do the job (Analyze menu) http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/si ... html#sound
The slider range for "Label Starting Point" and "Label Ending Point" only go up to 1 second, but you can type bigger values into the box before the slider.

[WeirDave]

The sound finder works on the tracks in the middle but the last track it still only picks 1 second afterward. Is there a code fix on the way to allow different values for that feature?

-- edited after doing a couple more records I quickly discovered that entering in a number does NOT work consistently, as I previously thought.

It sure would save me a boatload of time if it did!

Weirdave

[steve]

The sound finder works on the tracks in the middle but the last track it still only picks 1 second afterward.

Sound Finder only operates up to the end of the selection. If you want the final label to extend beyond the end of the audio track you need to make the selection longer so that there is space for the final label.

[WeirDave]

The sound finder works on the tracks in the middle but the last track it still only picks 1 second afterward.

Sound Finder only operates up to the end of the selection. If you want the final label to extend beyond the end of the audio track you need to make the selection longer so that there is space for the final label.

As you will see in my previous posts edit. I discovered that the process of adding a "2" into the field does not really work It still stops at 1 second which is the max in the "applet window". I want to suggest that we be able to edit this to whatever number we wish to have in the front and rear of the "sound" instead of just 1 second as most tracks in succession are 3 seconds apart 1 second previous to sound and 2 seconds after sound with the current setup we are unabvle to achieve this automatically and must manually edit each label.

[steve]

Here's a slightly modified version of Sound Finder.
In this version, the default "Label starting point [seconds before sound starts]" is 1 second and has a maximum range of 5 seconds and the default "Label ending point [seconds after sound ends]" is 2 seconds and has a maximum range of 5 seconds.

To install, download this file and put it into the Audacity Plug-ins folder. On Windows computers, this is usually at C:Program FilesAudacityPlug-ins. On 64-bit Windows this directory will be "C:Program Files (x86)AudacityPlug-ins". Then restart Audacity.

The new plug-in is called "Sound Finder 2"

SoundFinder2.ny

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[WeirDave]

Here's a slightly modified version of Sound Finder.
In this version, the default "Label starting point [seconds before sound starts]" is 1 second and has a maximum range of 5 seconds and the default "Label ending point [seconds after sound ends]" is 2 seconds and has a maximum range of 5 seconds.

To install, download this file and put it into the Audacity Plug-ins folder. On Windows computers, this is usually at C:Program FilesAudacityPlug-ins. On 64-bit Windows this directory will be "C:Program Files (x86)AudacityPlug-ins". Then restart Audacity.

The new plug-in is called "Sound Finder 2"

SoundFinder2.ny

WOW! SO awesome. Thank you!!!!!!!

I do have one small question now. If I have a song that fades at the end. (which happened to be the first one I tested), How do I know what level to place the -dB at so that I can get the correct spot for those songs or am I stuck manually editing them because of the fade?