Can I fix choppy (like buffered) audio?

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Can I fix choppy (like buffered) audio?

Post by max_powah » Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:15 pm

I found an old song file I want to work on, but somehow in getting it from my phone to my laptop to my Mac, it ended up skipping 5x every second, like it was a bad buffer. I had to slow the speed to 50%, but hope to find a way to remove all the blank audio portions without going second by second manually. I've attached a screenshot of what it looks like. That's what the whole song looks like. I can delete the blank portions and it sounds just fine and normal, but don't want to have to go through and delete all 1800 spots.
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Re: Can I fix choppy (like buffered) audio?

Post by steve » Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:14 pm

You could use "Truncate Silence" https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tru ... lence.html

The "Action" setting will need to be "Truncate" rather than "Compress", and set "Truncate to: 0".
You will need to adjust the other settings to suit the audio.
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