Running Audacity 2.1.2 on a Dell Inspiron with drivers and BIOS up to date and a terabyyte of storage. 16 gigs of ram.
Can't find an instruction that allows splitting one continuous recording into separate files on the same track. I did it before through a fluke and cannot remember how I did it the first time! Arranging them and moving the separate files about the timeline is no problem, but how to split them into separate files is eluding me and I don't see how to do this in the manual or in the FAQs. I know the answer is simple, but I can't find it. I must rearrange some sound effect files into separate blocks and I don;t want to resort to cut and paste which will necessitate a screwed timeline track somewhere else in the project. I have over two dozen tracks (stereo) that have to mix down into one and all are placed to where they play beautifully on my timeline except for this one.
Splitting files on same track
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Re: Splitting files on same track
A few "technical" terms that will help us to understand each other:
A "file" is package of data stored on a disk (or other storage medium).
An "audio clip" is a continuous section of audio in an Audacity track.
An "audio track" (in Audacity) is mono or stereo and has a track control panel on the left end (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audio_tracks.html)
An audio track may contain one or more audio clips (or even none, in which case it is an empty track).
I also use the non-technical term "song" to refer to a song, continuous piece of music, sound effect, or other continuous bit of sound (I use the term "song" so as to avoid confusion with the term "track", which could be a CD track, or an Audacity track, or some other sort of track).
Does that answer your question?
A "file" is package of data stored on a disk (or other storage medium).
An "audio clip" is a continuous section of audio in an Audacity track.
An "audio track" (in Audacity) is mono or stereo and has a track control panel on the left end (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audio_tracks.html)
An audio track may contain one or more audio clips (or even none, in which case it is an empty track).
I also use the non-technical term "song" to refer to a song, continuous piece of music, sound effect, or other continuous bit of sound (I use the term "song" so as to avoid confusion with the term "track", which could be a CD track, or an Audacity track, or some other sort of track).
To split an audio track into multiple clips, use the "Split" command (Shortcut: Ctrl + i) See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/edit ... aries.htmlEdward1 wrote:Can't find an instruction that allows splitting one continuous recording into separate files on the same track.
Does that answer your question?
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