Recording Live Concerts and Festivals - SOLVED

[dbrunnen]

What do you mean by "at the playhead?" I assume by this expression that you mean "adding a label on-the-fly while playing a previously recorded track."

Is that right?

Dennis...aka "dbrunnen"

[ve4jhj]

Here's information about the playhead: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html

[dbrunnen]

I hate to say this, but I feel I must. I'm not getting answers that help us.

We desperately want to record a live music set seamlessly using Audacity 2.2.2 on a PC running Windows 7 or 10 while at the same time being able to split the seamless recording into individual files on the fly with a simple keystroke/command that any alert volunteer can issue when appropriate.

No, we're not looking for recommendations on other ways to record the live music set, for example, using a hardware recorder. We do that already. We're looking for way to do this on a Windows PC that we can use to record the entire set and also quickly burn a CD with individual tracks for each song in the set.

Pressing Ctrl+B at the beginning of a recording session and then subsequently between songs while recording a live music set with Audacity may in fact insert a "zero-character label" on the fly each time. However, exporting the recording using File > Export > Export Multiple... does not result in multiple files with each file beginning at the point where the label (Ctrl+B) was inserted. Instead, only the last exported file has any audio associated with it—the entire set.

Maybe we're doing something wrong, or maybe some settings need to be made that I don't know about.

If Audacity cannot do this as-is and if this feature will not be added, can someone please recommend a simple-to-use Windows application that can do this: Record a set of live music in real time, allowing us to export a seamless (WAV or FLAC) recording of the entire set and also export the same recording as separate audio tracks whose boundaries are created by simple key strokes added by a volunteer while recording in real time.

Please help me with this requirement. Thanks!

Dennis ... aka "dbrunnen"

[steve]

Pressing Ctrl+B at the beginning of a recording session and then subsequently between songs while recording

"Ctrl + B" labels the current selection / cursor position, NOT the current play / recording position. To add a label / marker at the current play / record position, use "Ctrl + M".

[dbrunnen]

Yes, thank you!! Pressing Ctrl+M seems to do just what we need.

Having said that, I believe I saw something in the documentation about a setting that would eliminate the need to press Ctrl+M at the beginning of the recording. That is, if Ctrl+M was only pressed "between" the songs in the set, the Export Multiple function would include the opening song as the first track in the set. Is this true, and if so, where does one find the setting?

Thanks again...

Dennis, aka "dbrunnen"

[steve]

That is, if Ctrl+M was only pressed "between" the songs in the set, the Export Multiple function would include the opening song as the first track in the set. Is this true, and if so, where does one find the setting?

It's in the "Export Multiple" dialog. Look for the option "Include audio before first label".

[dbrunnen]

Got it! Thanks. I believe this thread can be closed now.

Dennis...aka "dbrunnen"