using a silence finder to split a long recording

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After recording close to 80 minute music from internet radios, I export the file and burn it in order to listen to in my car. It sounds great with one minor problem. I cannot select tracks. The player shows just one track. I read the help files and copied silencemarker.ny in plug-ins folder in audacity folder. I restarted Audacity. But, when I click "analyze" at the top, everything is still grayed out. I must be doing something wrong.

I was using version 1.2.6. I downloaded the newest beta version 1.3.4. The result is the same.

I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

[Step]

I figured it out. Wait until you stop recording. Then, click Analyze, select Silence Finder.
I was able to break the recording into individual tracks, and export multiple track into my burn folder.
I hope this helps newbies like myself

Cheers.

[Hotrod71]

Step, I have the same problem even after I have copied silencemarker.ny in my plug-ins folder and stopped the recording, the silence finder is still greyed out. I have to manually find the start of each track and then go to tthe Project Tab and select "Add Label At Selection" What exactly did you do to get audacity to automatically break these into different tracks? Thanks.

[Step]

Hotrod;
When I click to stop recording, All the choices at top are no longer grayed out. All I do is click Analyze/silence finder. Audacity does the rest. Occasionally, two or three songs(files) are still together. I can live with that.

[Hotrod71]

Thanks for your reply; however, I must be doing something wrong because when I stop recording, the Analyze button is NOT greyed out, but the two drop-downs under Analyze ("beat finder" and "silence finder") are greyed out. I've even downloaded silence.ny three times and I still get the same thing. What am I doing wrong?

[steve]

After you have stopped the recording, click on the tracks information block, just under the track volume and pan sliders. This will select the track and you will then be able to use the Analyse functions (also the Edit functions).

[Hotrod71]

By clicking on the tracks information block, will this automatically break/split my long recording into tracks as I've read in some of these posts. I'm trying to use the "silence finder" to automatically break/split my recording into tracks instead of my having to do it manually by clicking the "Project" button at the top and then selecting "Add Label At Selection".

[steve]

You need to have some audio data selected in order to use the "silence finder".
Clicking on the block at the left hand end of a track will select the track - you can then use the "silence finder".

[ready]

under mac os x I had a similar problem, i didn't have a greyed out silence finder but nothing happened when I clicked on it even though I had selected my track. The solution to this was to use audacity inside the folder the way it was downloaded. Maybe the same thing applies to Windows. Don't move the Audacity file around, just start it.

[steve]

Audacity for Windows is an ".exe" file that installs the program.