Topic: combining 2 tracks in Audacity

[mikesalvo]

using 1.2.6. I stupidly added a trackmark in a wrong spot. I didnt know how to remove it (I was past the "undo" point, althought looking back, I could have edited it through my history), so I went with it thinking I could just combine it with the previous track later. For soime reason I am having trouble doing this. It seems like it should be so simple. Just need to combine 2 tacks, that together are just onse song....

[dennisrtyler]

1. open the first track
2. project>import audio to open the second track
3. drag over(highlight) the second track
4. edit>copy
5. click at the end of first track(doesn't have to be exact, just somewhere after the end)
6. edit>paste
7. wait 5-7 seconds

[mikesalvo]

ya i figured this would work, it ried it last night, and again before posting this response, and its not allowing me to paste for some reason. The paste option is shaded out. I have the tracked file saved, is there a way to remove a single track mark???

[dean]

...is there a way to remove a single track mark???

I haven't figured it out, and would love to, so checking in.  Hopefully someone will know...   

[pontiacb]

ya i figured this would work, i tried it last night, and again before posting this response, and its not allowing me to paste for some reason. The paste option is shaded out.

It could be that if you are playing the track and have it paused whilst trying to paste that it won't let you paste or do any editing functions - I think that you need to stop playing the track, including pausing, whilst you do the editing/pasting.

[mikesalvo]

i know what youre saying, but Its not playing. Its stopped. +t to all whove offered insight. Anyone have any other ides? How bout my orevious inquiry of just taking out one trackmark.

[pontiacb]

Not very helpful, but to let you know that I just tried the copy and paste as posted above and it worked on Audacity 1.3 beta.

Also, whilst this is not a solution to your problem using Audacity, but I use shntool to join tracks when I 'over split'.  Its simply then a comand from the dos (command) prompt 'shntool join track1.wav track2.wav' and you end up with a file called joined.wav or similar.

[SmokinJoe]

Big plus T dennis!

Since I got my R4 which does splits at 2GB, I have been going about this in a much harder way...

[Patrick]

Make sure that you slide the second track over as far as you can to butt it up against the 1st, using the LR arrow tool, so that there is no gap there.  In mac I also highlight over the gap area and hit command-J and that joins them seamlessly.  Not sure if that's completely necessary but it's how I'm used to it.