[SOLVED] [newbie] How to extract multiple segments from audio file?

[yetanotherlogin]

Hello

I'm currently running Audacity 2.0.6 on Windows7.

I have a newbie question: I need to extract several parts from an audio file, add some fade out/fade in to mash them up, and save the whole thing as an audio file.

What is the right way to do this?

Is there a way to 1) mark several parts with start/end points, 2) tell Audacity to remove the rest that I don't need, 3) add some fade out/in for each segment, and 4) save the whole thing as an audio file?

Thank you.

[johns0]

Audacity can do all what you want,you just gotta read more about it,i can do some effects.

[Baldrick]

Yep. Read http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Category:Tutorial

[yetanotherlogin]

Before I spend more time reading, I forgot to say that I need to 1) select multiple parts of a track because I wrote down the start-end timestamps for each, and 2) delete the useless audio between them. Next, I'll have to add some fade in/outs before exporting the whole thing.

Currently, if I doctor the first part, all the subsequent timestamps are wrong so I have to compute where the next parts are

Do you confirm that Audacity supports this today?
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Select_multiple_label_regions_and_invert_selection

[yetanotherlogin]

Found a work-around:

1. Launch a second instance of Audacity
2. In the first instance, create regions for each segment you want to keep
3. For each region: Select it by clicking on its label in the Label Track, select Edit > Copy, switch to the other instance of Audacity, select Edit > Paste

Maybe there's a faster way, but it does the job.

Thank you.

[hello_hello]

If the audio happens to be MP3 you can do all that without re-encoding using MP3Directcut.
If it's not MP3, feel free to ignore this post.

[yetanotherlogin]

Good to know. I'll give it a try next time. Thank you.