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Insert Something At Beginning of Audacity File
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:19 am
by ButWhy
First of all, I have Audacity 2.0.5 on Windows 7 Enterprise. (I can't remember if I installed from an exe or not.)
I'm a newbie and have learned how to manually insert a sound file at the beginning of an audactiy file. But let's say I have a 100 audactiy files and want to insert the exact same audio clip at the beginning of all of them. Is there a way I can script that or do it in bulk or something? Or is there some software out there that does that?
Re: Insert Something At Beginning of Audacity File
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:42 am
by Trebor
ButWhy wrote:... Is there a way I can script that or do it in bulk or something?
Or is there some software out there that does that?
Free-software called
SoX does that type of batch-processing of audio files...
https://www.google.com/search?q=concate ... t/sox.html
Re: Insert Something At Beginning of Audacity File
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:27 am
by steve
What is the "something" that you want to add to the beginning? If it is "silence" or a generated sound, then you may be a suitable plug-in that you could use in a Chain (
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ch ... ation.html). If it's a recording, then SoX is probably your best bet, unless you intend to put the recording onto a CD, in which case you could just insert the tracks into the CD compilation with you CD burning software.
Re: Insert Something At Beginning of Audacity File
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:08 pm
by ButWhy
steve wrote:What is the "something" that you want to add to the beginning? If it is "silence" or a generated sound, then you may be a suitable plug-in that you could use in a Chain (
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ch ... ation.html). If it's a recording, then SoX is probably your best bet, unless you intend to put the recording onto a CD, in which case you could just insert the tracks into the CD compilation with you CD burning software.
I looked at the chains and I don't that will work, because it seems to only work with the effects in Audacity. I don't really want to add an effect but actually insert an external file into an existing set of files.
My purpose? I want the ability to insert ads and/or a change of intro into the beginning of my podcasts. I also would like to subtract those out and then reinsert something different if I need to.
I'll check these out. If you have any other ideas, it's much appreciated...