I haven't compared these options to see if there is any advantage to either of them, but you can also simply delete the selected material and not move before doing so. In other words, export the material, then delete it from the original file. As I recall, the delete command is control k. You can chedk to make sure by finding it in the edit menu. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bailes" <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:19 AM > Hi Rich, > If you have a time range selected, then if you press right arrow, then the > time range is deselected, and the position of the cursor is where the end > of the selection used to be. Similarly, if you press left arrow, the > cursor is where the start of the selection used to be. > > David. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rich De Steno <ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2012, 11:47 > Subject: [audacity4blind] Moving Square Brackets Along a Sound File > > Let's say you have a sound file of several songs in Audacity. You press > left square bracket and space bar at the beginning of the first song and > right square bracket and space at the end of the first song. You have now > selected that song and can export it into an MP3 file. How can you then > move those brackets to the next song for exporting without starting from > the beginning of the entire file? I tried following the manual on this, > but I could not get it to work. > > -- Rich De Steno > > > The audacity4blind web site is at > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > Audacity keyboard commands, and more... > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject line > unsubscribe > > The audacity4blind web site is at > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > Audacity keyboard commands, and more... > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject line > unsubscribe > > > The audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe