Hi Sharni-Lee!
Unselecting everything by pressing ctrl-shift-A is a prudent precaution when
dealing with many tracks. However, since you say the clips are in a single
file, I gather there is only one track to begin with. That is selected
automatically when the file is imported. Or else it needs to be selected by
pressing enter. Only when the track is selected can you select audio within
that track and cut it.
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding regarding the word select? There is
selecting a track and selecting audio. In order to select and edit a section
of audio, the respective track needs to be selected. This is because in a
project with more than one track the program needs to know which track to
apply the editing to. Actually I think Audacity should make a point of using
different words for those two functions. Many people find it confusing at
first.
Cheers! Robbie
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Cutting Selection isn't working as expected
Hi,
I'm trying to separate a long list of voice clips that were sent to me in
one file. I made sure the whole thing was unselected, and then selected the
portion I wanted to move to its own file and used Cut. The whole thing was
cut out of the first window and pasted into the second.
I tried Split Cut, and that took the part I wanted out of the original file
so I could paste it into the second, but left a block of silence as long as
the audio I'd taken out.
I thought cut/delete was supposed to act on only the selected portion of
audio, and Split Cut/Delete deleted or cut everything around the selected
portion. Selecting and then deleting audio worked for me before in previous
versions of Audacity. The noise removal effect also didn't leave me with
whispery feedback when I removed noise, but that's beside the point.
Am I doing something wrong here? I thought it was prudent to unselect
everything and then reselect only the part you wanted to manipulate, and
last I heard, blind people couldn't create and move multiple clips around.
