selection invert

[046oh]

windows, 2.0.5, exe

is there a way to invert your selection?
i checked the selection option under edit, but i couldn't see that option

[046oh]

also can i select multiple regions?

so the audio looks like

[selected]-[not selected]-[selected]

[kozikowski]

You want to select everything that didn't used to be selected?
Koz

[kozikowski]

You can cheat with the time windows at the bottom of the frame. You can put time numbers in there and selection turns into a bookkeeping exercise.

Koz

[steve]

also can i select multiple regions?

You can only select one region at a time, though the region may extend over multiple tracks (if you have several tracks one above the other).

There are a few operations that can be applied to multiple regions at the same time, where the regions are marked with "labels". See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ed ... audio.html

is there a way to invert your selection?

No, but there are other ways to produce a similar effect.

If you press Ctrl+i, the selected audio will be "split" so that it is a separate audio clip. From one selection in the middle of a track, this will then give you three audio clips - the selected part, the part before the selection and the part after the selection. Any of three parts can then be selected by double clicking on the waveform.
To remove a "split line", either click on it, or to remove multiple split lines at once, select the full audio track and press Ctrl+J to "join" the clips.
See here for more information: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ed ... aries.html

Depending on what you are doing, labels can be useful for marking parts of the recording: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/label_tracks.html

[Gale Andrews]

is there a way to invert your selection?

Can I select multiple regions

If the workarounds for those are not adequate, you can ask for a "vote" for those to be recorded.

If you want to vote for multiple regions, would you want to be able to select multiple non-adjacent region labels (for example, you have 12 labels and you want to select labels 3 and 5)?


Gale