Audacity Forum

Hello,

I am putting together some tools for creating language learning materials (see https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=7169).
Thanks for the great tool.

For my use case, I have an issue. I am trying to use Audacity to automatically mark speech and export clips of audio, say, 400 clips per recording.
Marking the audio works very well, however, when I go to File -> Export -> Export Multiple, I am prompted to create a tag for each output file. This is too tedious, and in fact no tag is needed.

I think I found the code that would need to be edited:

At line 388 in Export.cpp there is this method: Exporter::Process(AudacityProject *project, bool selectedOnly, double t0, double t1)

It should be sufficient to comment out this code, or disable it via a checkbox in the UI?

// Let user edit MetaData
if (mPlugins[mFormat]->GetCanMetaData(mSubFormat)) {
if (!(project->DoEditMetadata(_("Edit Metadata Tags"), _("Exported Tags"), mProject->GetShowId3Dialog()))) {
return false;
}
}

I tried to compile the project on windows, unfortunatly, I have the same issues as this other user: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=88135&sid=f74c6ac9 ... b&start=10

If you could add such an option in the next build, it would be useful for me.

Many Thanks,

David

davidzweig wrote:when I go to File -> Export -> Export Multiple, I am prompted to create a tag for each output file. This is too tedious, and in fact no tag is needed.

The "Prompt" is the "Metadata Editor". There's a Preference setting to stop that from popping up: "Show Metadata Tags editor before export" https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/imp ... ences.html

Oh, great, I found it, works fine.

The files I export are renamed with a script to have a name like this:

FRE0001A.mp3

If there was an ability to add a prefix, zero-pad the index, and add a postfix, it would be neat.
I think Adobe Audition can do postfixes and zero pad the index, but no prefix.

Anyway, like this it's ok, I just run a python script to rename the files.

Thanks, David.