Detach at Silences stopped working all of a sudden

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GWARslave119
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Detach at Silences stopped working all of a sudden

Post by GWARslave119 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 9:05 pm

When I have several audio tracks on 1 .wav, I found it was quicker to use that feature when seperating into different tracks. I would hit Ctrl+Alt+J and it would split where there was audio silence, which was always between songs, and sometimes in the middle of a song if the recording had a skip, so I would just slide them over. Just started doing this today. Now when I try to split at silence, using the same .wav file as I first started with, it won't split where 2 songs join together. Now all it's doing is offsetting the start of the file a couple seconds and that's it...anyone ran into this before?

Edit: Would posting a video link help with understanding what I'm talking about?
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Re: Detach at Silences stopped working all of a sudden

Post by steve » Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:30 pm

The most likely explanation is that the "silences" are not "absolute silence".
"Detach at Silences" only works if the silence is absolute - "very very quiet" is not quiet enough.
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