On 15/06/2020, David Engebretson Jr. <accessible.engineering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay, so you weren’t exporting a single project with multiple tracks to one
mp3 file? Am I hearing this right?
Thanks, and glad you got it sorted out (even though I am still confused
*smile*)
I’ll have to look into labels more. There must be some dynamic shtuff going
on with labels.
Best,
David
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Yes Andrew, that is exactly right.
I was ending up with 10 separate files in my folder representing each of my
label points. The problem was that the first file actually contained tracks
1 through 10, the 2nd file tracks 2 through 10, the 3rd 3 to 10 and so on
because I had the entire track selected.
After reading Robert’s response I went back to the original project with no
labels, , unselected the track with all the songs, reset the label points,
exported multiple and achieved the results I had been getting all those
times before.
Much thanks,
StanB
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David, all of what you say is correct. The reason that Stan’s files were
large was that he had inadvertently selected from the current point to the
end of the track when labelling each song. Having been similarly caught out
in the past, I am now very careful to check what is selected.
Andrew
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I’m confused about how labels would make a difference in the size of an mp3
exported from an Audacity project.
An mp3 only has one track associated with its file size, right? I mean: I
can select multiple tracks in an Audacity project and export it to an mp3
that renders the selected tracks to one mp3 file. The labels don’t export to
the mp3 file do they? It doesn’t matter how many tracks you select before
you select to export to mp3; it will always render as a smaller file than
exporting it to a lossless format like WAV.
If you export to WAV the file will always be much bigger than the similarly
exported mp3 file. Where does the difference in labelling make a 4Mb to
100Mb difference in a single exported file from the selected tracks in the
Audacity project?
What am I missing here? Note that I don’t use labels normally so I haven’t
much experience with exporting tracks with labels on them.
I appreciate your expertise! I always like to learn.
David
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In my previous post I said:
“I cannot imagine how using point labels would give a different result to
what you are getting.”
I was wrong. Point labels allow exporting multiple perfectly well. The
catch, as Stan found out, is to inadvertently have the remainder of the
track selected.
Andrew
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Ah, never thought of that. I always use labels that cover the length of the
song/item, which is why the issue has not arisen for me. I cannot imagine
how using point labels would give a different result to what you are
getting.
Andrew
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Strange, I’ll paste it below:
Hello Robert,
They are indeed point labels. And yes, you are right! Thank you very much!
I checked and Audacity is exporting from the label to the end of the
project. However, I don't think it's a bug because I've recorded and
exported several albums successfully since updating to 2.4.1.
This seems to have started after I saved a copy of a project as Lossless. I
can't recall anything else that I changed or did differently.
StanB
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