Help With Splitting A Large File Into Individual Tracks

[Medea]

Hello Everyone,

I am very new at this and I am afraid I do not have the slightest idea what I am doing. I am trying to divide a large file of belly dance music into individual tracks. The file is already on my computer so I just need to be able to split the tracks. Is there a tutorial that will show me how to do it step by step? I have some information that I found on Audacity's website but I an finding it to be a bit confusing. If anyone can point me in the right direction I will be extremely grateful!

Thank you!
Medea

[Dennis]

The term "split the track" in audacity refers to splitting left from right channels.

To remove portions of the main sound track to make it their own you need to remove that portion and save it as its own file .

To do this you need to Highlight with your mouse that section of music and paste in in another section then export that track with its own file name.

D

[Medea]

Hi Dennis,

Thank you for your reply. I guess I used the wrong terminology. What I meant to say was I wanted to cut one long music file into individual tracks. I have played around with the program a little bit and have since figured it out.

Again, thank you for your reply. I am sure your information will come in handy for me in the future. :)

Medea

[Ayesha Nicole]

Dear Medea & Dennis,

Can you please type out instructions on HOW to do this, step-by-step? I cannot figure it out! :{

I am using Audacity 1.3.7 unicode and more than frustrated at this point.

Thank you.
Ayesha

[Mary Tweedy]

Hi Dennis,
Yopur reply to split the main sound track sound like what I want to do. I put a double LP into audacity and it is too big to burn to 1 c.d. I need to cut it into 2 pieces. How can I do this please. Like Medea I am completely new to Audactity and am getting a bit lost.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mary.

[Mark White]

Hi guys,

This is what you do. First you take the track with all of the songs ( or file) on it. Select the end of the first songs data (Where you want the first "song" to end). Then select edit from the tool bar. Then select the Select ... > Cursor to End - Selects from the cursor position to the end of the selected tracks. Then the edit drop down again (Tool bar) and Split - Moves the selected region into its own track or tracks, replacing the affected portion of the original track with silence. Continue this proceedor until all the songs have their own track. Then you would export multiple...
Export Multiple
The File > Export Multiple command will export all your audio files at one go (one per LP track, each with their own filename), based on your chosen split points. When you click File > Export Multiple, a dialogue box pops up where you choose your Export Format, the Export Location, and how to name your files. The instructions are at these two web sites...
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/menu_edit.htm
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_i...
Hope that helps. I do this almost every week.
Mark

[Ayesha Nicole]

Dear Mark,

Thank you for the step-by-step instructions. The two links you provided are unhelpful because it presupposes that you are familiar with the program - which I am not. I need Audacity-for-Dummies type instructions that are written step-by-step.

l will try following yours and let you know how it turns out.

Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Ayesha

[Ayesha Nicole]

Dear Mark,

I wanted to let you know that your instructions made it easy for me to successfully split one track into many. My tracks come from a language book/cd set that I have the permission of the author to put the individual lessons into .ppt slides with one written example per slide and the corresponding track/sound clip that I am splitting from each track. I am basically making audio flashcards.

Now, I need to take out the silences (with select and delete) so that each new track has the same amount of silence on each side of the voice-wave-image (I don't know what the waveform is called). What is the industry standard for something like that? 1/2 second? 1/4 second?

Thank you.
Ayesha

[Mark White]

Hi again,

Windows Media player puts 2 seconds of silence between every track. Itunes allows you to adjust it. So I guess what ever sounds good to you.
Mark

[Judith Curtis]

I am someone new and inexperienced also with the same question. I have a mac pro with version 1.2.5. I followed your steps to put each song into a separate track, named them in the track label space which was confusing because there were two label tracks following the first track and none that appeared after any of the other tracks so I just put the names all in one of the label tracks that was there. I then did the export multiple and chose mp3 format to go to movies where I have been sending all of the other audacity projects I have been doing. I import them to itunes from there. I filled out the form that appeared and hit export. The file seems to be exporting but after a while it stops, the computer starts making a reving noise and then the little loading sign appears and the only way I can get it to stop is to force quit. The file never makes it to the destination. What am I doing wrong? jabcurtis