Re: [tlug] Editing Soud Files (WAV & MP3)

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On 01/18/2006 09:38 PM, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
>
>> I have now tried Audacity, I can import files, I can convert them to 
>> MP3, Wav or ogg, but what I can't do and what I need to do is to edit 
>> out a ten-twenty second clip of a song.  The Save,Cut, Paste options 
>> are not active.
>
>
> Did you click and "drag out" part of an audio track to select it?  
> After selecting the part of the track you want, you can use the 
> "Export Selection as xxx..." menu item to just make a copy of that 
> portion of the track.  (Alternatively you can use 'trim' to delete the 
> rest of the track.)


I did this:

1) Imported a 4-minute wav file.

2) I found the start point I wanted by clicking in the wave display, 
clicking on play, stopping and clicking a little further forward or 
back, clicking on play again, etc., until I found exactly where I wanted 
the selection to start.  This left a thin black line at that point and 
every click on Play started the song from the exact same point.

3) I clicked on the record button and as it played, both the wave 
display and the empty white display below were shaded as it played.  I 
clicked on stop at the desired end point.

Now - I would like to click on "Export Selection as..." but all of those 
(for each file formats) are grayed out, so I can't.  Why is that?  What 
do I need to do to activate that feature?

Lyle