How to insert selection at the beginning of a track

[saturnine777]

Unfortunately none of these worked- how do you not select the audio for copying it? I would select it, press 'copy', then un-select it, put the cursor at the start of the track, and same thing would happen..

[steve]

Please read this page carefully: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... ction.html
Does that answer all of your questions about selecting and not selecting audio?

[saturnine777]

Hmm.. I was trying to understand the section on 'extending or contracting a selection'. I understood the part about selecting the part of the audio you want; in the way it explained how to extend it is where I got lost; it says hold down the shift key then press left or right? Left or right on the keyboard (didn't work) or on the toolbar/screen?
Thanks for trying to work with me

[Gale Andrews]

Unfortunately none of these worked- how do you not select the audio for copying it? I would select it, press 'copy', then un-select it, put the cursor at the start of the track, and same thing would happen..

There is no reason this does not work:

copy, press the |<< button or type J. Then you have removed the selection and moved the cursor to the start of the track. Then Paste.

Perhaps the problem is that you never answered the questions at the top of the page. Try doing that and making sure you have Audacity 2.0.6 from http://audacityteam.org/download/mac.


Gale

[Gale Andrews]

Hmm.. I was trying to understand the section on 'extending or contracting a selection'. I understood the part about selecting the part of the audio you want; in the way it explained how to extend it is where I got lost; it says hold down the shift key then press left or right? Left or right on the keyboard (didn't work) or on the toolbar/screen?

LEFT is the left-pointing arrow <-- and RIGHT is the right-pointing arrow -->.

Are you able to use a mouse or do you only use the keyboard?

Gale