mherbers1800 wrote: ↑February 1st, 2022, 11:48 am
I'm trying to delete a 3-min. segment. I tried cut, delete, scissors, etc. and still just have an empty pink chunk with no audio markings. Any clues how to get rid of that empty chunk?
Since you have tried the obvious tools, if you would upload it and put the link here, we will give you some other ideas. Here is a video on how I replace words but you have probably done all this already https://youtu.be/dgNCkTRLaS8
The 'big empty pink chunk' is interesting, not sure what that is. Did you perhaps change tools?
I'm trying to delete a section of audio in the middle of a file.
When I highlighted the area and clicked "Cut," the blue audio squiggles disappeared and a blank pink space remained.
Highlighting the pink space, I tried Cut, Delete, scissors icon, control X -- and nothing takes it out.
mherbers1800 wrote: ↑February 1st, 2022, 12:24 pm
I'm trying to delete a section of audio in the middle of a file.
When I highlighted the area and clicked "Cut," the blue audio squiggles disappeared and a blank pink space remained.
Highlighting the pink space, I tried Cut, Delete, scissors icon, control X -- and nothing takes it out.
How can I get rid of the pink space?
If I understood correctly: your track consists of clips. So deleting a part of the file will leave some space between two nearby clips. You need either way to join them (preferred to be used to all the clips as you may have them onwards) before deleting or to move the second of the two backwards to the first one (this is why the first method is better, as clips after the second one (if there are any), won't follow by, which will cause the same space between the next pair).
mherbers1800 wrote: ↑February 1st, 2022, 1:12 pm
So how would I join them?
Here Join Tool. I think it'll work if to Ctrl+A (highlighting all the track) and make the same as described there but I've never tried. I just click on each grey vertical bar between clips until it disappears like some noob (ha-ha). Clips appear with each stop-record combination, which means after each stop of a recording process, the new recording process goes with the new clip.
You might have a preference set wrong, which doesn't allow the clips to join together when you delete one. Try going into Prefs/Tracks/Track Behaviour. I think the one you want is highlighted here:
EDIT: I would have posted before Rapunzelina, but I added a cool image.
According to the Audacity help file (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/playback.html) the shortcut 1 should play one second of audio centred on the mouse position. But that doesn't work for me - I get a beep sound, indicating the program does not know what 1 means. Oddly, Play To Selection (B) and Play Cut Review (C) work just fine.
I thought I might be able to reset 1 as a shortcut in preferences, but it appears that Play One Second is not a selectable menu item.
Am following the video about replacing words in Audacity.
However, when I press Shift Record, it PLAYS the section I want to replace, instead of recording new reading.
I positioned the line where recording should be placed, then pressed shift and held it down and clicked Record.
It started playing where the line was positioned.
