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Getting started with Audacity 1.3

You're reading from   Getting started with Audacity 1.3 Create your own podcasts, edit music, and more with this open source audio editor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197641
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Getting started with Audacity 1.3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Audacity and the World of Audio Editing 2. The Basics: Setting Up a Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Ready and Action! Creating a Voice Track and Recording Interviews 4. Making It Sound Better: Editing Your Podcast 5. Advanced Editing: Fixing the Glitches and Removing the Noise 6. Saving Projects and Exporting Podcasts 7. Beyond the Basics: Editing for Even Better Sound 8. Importing and Adding Background Music 9. Giving Your Audio Some Depth: Applying Effects 10. Making Audacity Even Better With Plug-Ins and Libraries Toolbar, Menu, and Keyboard Shortcut Reference
Glossary of Terms
Index

Splitting and duplicating audio


When you split an audio track, it removes the selected area from the original, creates another track, and places the selected area into it—in essence creating another audio track. This is useful when you want to re-order the audio in a different sequence than the one in which it was originally recorded.

Using duplicate is similar, but instead of removing the selection from the original track, it just duplicates the selected audio into a new track. Both of these features create new audio tracks—it just depends if the selected area in the original was removed from it (splitting) or just copied to another track (duplicating).

Splitting tracks

Splitting audio tracks is most often used to make multiple audio clips—or short pieces of audio—that are going to be re-ordered or moved around from their original recorded order. You can split tracks in a few different ways.

Split and Time Shift

The first technique allows you to literally "split" the sound waves, and make a...

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