Hi,
I'm new to Audacity and this forum, so I apologize if this question was already asked. I have a long audio file (documentary) and would like to insert "chapters" so that when I playback the file I can fast forward or rewind by chapter.
I've been doing a lot of reading about "Labels" but that seems to split the file up into separate "sub-files".
Is there a way to achieve what I'm looking to do?
Thanks in advance for your help.
How to Create Chapters in a Single Audio File
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Re: How to Create Chapters in a Single Audio File
Most digital audio formats don't support chapters. You my have to find an audio book format and an appropriate audio book player application. From what I understand, AAC supports chapters, but you'd have to figure-out how to add the chapter information (maybe iTunes?) and your player also has to support them (maybe iTunes/iPod?).
The "shiny disc" formats (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray) all support chapters or track markers.
Most audio formats supports "tags" so you can add a track number to a file. I've copied a couple of audio books from CD to MP3 with a separate files for every chapter (and sometimes for a sub-chapters). And, any audio player can play the files in track-number order.
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Re: How to Create Chapters in a Single Audio File
Producing chapters in a sound file is Frequently Requested. Another way to do it is a single-picture video file.
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Re: How to Create Chapters in a Single Audio File
"Chapter and Verse" is a free Windows program that does exactly what you need:
http://lodensoftware.com/chapter-and-verse/
It will also convert most audio files to AAC, which is the only audio format I know that supports chapters natively. Every player that supports AAC should be able to see chapters. MP4 supports it too, but that is a video container. I have a feeling some audio players might not support chapters, but I've never tried it.
Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Opus formats can use an extension to support chapters:
https://wiki.xiph.org/Chapter_Extension
However, a lot of players didn't support this last time I looked.
An overview of possible solutions, from the Auphonic blog:
https://auphonic.com/blog/2013/07/03/ch ... -podcasts/
I've never tried Auphonic, which is a webservice, free for up to two hours/month. Of course, Auphonic can add chapters too and it does a lot of other stuff too. Some of it sounds like snake oil, like "clipping removal", fi.
http://lodensoftware.com/chapter-and-verse/
It will also convert most audio files to AAC, which is the only audio format I know that supports chapters natively. Every player that supports AAC should be able to see chapters. MP4 supports it too, but that is a video container. I have a feeling some audio players might not support chapters, but I've never tried it.
Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Opus formats can use an extension to support chapters:
https://wiki.xiph.org/Chapter_Extension
However, a lot of players didn't support this last time I looked.
An overview of possible solutions, from the Auphonic blog:
https://auphonic.com/blog/2013/07/03/ch ... -podcasts/
I've never tried Auphonic, which is a webservice, free for up to two hours/month. Of course, Auphonic can add chapters too and it does a lot of other stuff too. Some of it sounds like snake oil, like "clipping removal", fi.