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successfully merge mp3 files

Post by cab » Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:20 pm

because copying multiple files to get one when I export to mp3 audio overlaps and becomes incomprehensible? how can you avoid this.
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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by kozikowski » Sun Apr 05, 2015 3:45 am

Import all your shows and they will stack one above the other and play at the same time.

Tracks > Align Tracks > Align End to End.
You may have to Shift- Select them all by clicking just above the MUTE buttons. I forget how that part works.

That should string them out and Export will smash them into one show.

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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by kozikowski » Sun Apr 05, 2015 3:57 am

Yes. You have to select all of them by shift-clicking above MUTE on each track and then Tracks > Align Tracks

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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by steve » Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:31 pm

You can also slide the audio tracks left/right using the Time Shift tool.
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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:29 pm

Note that if you export the MP3's as one combined MP3 you will degrade the quality. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/MP3#re-encode for lossless tools you can use to join MP3's.

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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by cab » Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:22 pm

thank you.
it would be possible to have shown step by step commands Italians to use?
for clarity when I extract tracks from audio files (mp3) and then mix them together with copy-paste to obtain one only audio mixes, overlaps. I want to prevent this from happening.
second question: even if the recording is stereo, audacity can now show only one track instead of two?
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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Apr 06, 2015 4:24 pm

cab wrote:it would be possible to have shown step by step commands Italians to use?
Sorry we do not speak native Italian here, but you can try http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... .html#join. I stress again, this is the wrong approach because you will lose quality. If possible you should use tools that join MP3's without re-encoding them.
cab wrote:even if the recording is stereo, audacity can now show only one track instead of two?
Do you mean you want to make the track mono when you have joined the songs into one track, so that it sounds the same in both speakers? If so, click in the Track Control Panel (where it says "Hz" to left of the blue waves), then choose Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono.


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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by cab » Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:05 pm

thank you. excuse gale andrews I could make you listen to a brief mp3 files and show you a jpg image?

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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Apr 06, 2015 6:09 pm

cab wrote:thank you. excuse gale andrews I could make you listen to a brief mp3 files and show you a jpg image?
You can attach an image: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 49&t=64936 if that is an explanation about what you mean by making a single track.

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Re: successfully merge mp3 files

Post by cab » Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:55 pm

thanks Gale
I ask the courtesy to tell me the procedure of proper installation of audio files to prevent the voices overlap as hear the mp3 files attached jpg file is the home page of audacity and second jpg window indicating that the audio tracks mingle. thing that is not good!
assembly is almost exclusively of files not talked music. the file is recorded spoken unnecessarily in stereo that's why it would be useful to have audacity automatically from one tracccia like a mono file and also because in this way the screen is part of a larger number of files.
i wait
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