[Dixielandjazz] Inserting breaks in a continuous track (was Lil Hardin Armstrong query.)

[John Blegen]

One little trick that simplifies the process:  The key combination Shift/j will select everything up to the cursor.  I load a file into Audacity, then use Shift/j to select everything up to the beginning of the first tune.  Then I delete that.  I find the end of the first tune, put the cursor there, do a Shift/j and then, under the File menu, save the selection with the name of the tune.  Then I delete that and continue working through the file.  It saves some steps.


 John Blegen
jcblegen.com




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From: Bob Smith <robert.smith at tele2.no>
To: John Blegen <jcblegen at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 5:46:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Inserting breaks in a continuous track (was Lil Hardin Armstrong query.)

Dear Bert

Using the free program "Audacity" it is fairly easy to separate a continuous track into various parts, but it is a rather tedious business as each part has to be saved individually, so that the CD-burning program can recognise each part as a separate entity.
So it goes like this: Make a file of the original single track. Open this in Audacity. Insert the first break, save this as the main file, then delete everything after the break. Save the new single part. Delete this single part and open the new main file. Delete the first part and insert the second break, save this over the new main file, repeating these procedures ad nauseam until the the original file has been split into its component parts and each has been saved separately.
These parts can then be assembled into a CD-burning program and copied to a blank CD.

Kind Regards

Bob Smith



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