Please help with automatic trimming

Hi, I experience a click noise half the time when starting and ending a recording–it’s probably a mouse or keyboard thing but sometimes it just sounds like a noise glitch. I’m curious if there is a way to automatically trim off the first and last 200MS every time I click and end a recording? I would greatly appreciate any help here.

It’s not supposed to do that.

Post some of the noise.

https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-post-an-audio-sample/29851/1

Koz

You could also select a few tenths of a second and try Effect > Fade In and Fade Out.

it’s probably a mouse or keyboard thing

There are home microphones and interfaces which can do that. One common problem with home interfaces is an electronic defect where “Silent” and “Digital Zero” aren’t the same. You will get a click or other noise at both ends of a recording. You may find it very difficult to edit or cut back and forth between your recording and other sound files that don’t have this problem.

That’s why it would be good to have a sample of the noise.

Koz