Audacity gap in playback after export???

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Audacity gap in playback after export???

Ive been working on my first mix, as it turns out i got it down nearly perfect the other day except for one off cue. So having read a few of the threads here i decided to use Audacity to fix it.

I spent some hours in Audacity, learning and watching tuts and such on the net.

I managed to do a simple cut and paste… and made a but joint where the fault was. I then played it back in Audacity and it was seemless.

Feeling satisfied I exported it as a WAV, however upon playback in Itunes there was a gap of say around 3-4 :disappointed: where I had cut and pasted.

I reimported track to Audacity and the gap was there, missing a bout 3 -4 seconds…

???

Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong?

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Hmm i used to use audacity. I know it uses a funny format for the project files. Did it export as one file man? audacity can be a bit weird with files sometimes. put a screen shot up for us mate.

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when you move them to gether, you have to join them. I think its just double click.

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Ok, Ive been doing some reading and it would appear that maybe because my recorded WAV files are 32 bit float, his may have an effect, so i changed to 16 bit. I also changed (snap off) to (snap on)

also selection format to : cdda minute:sec:frames:75fbs.

I really have no idea what im doing, hopefully this works out.

My format in Audicity was still like this when i tried to export (sorry different computer, no screen shot)

T1 - AAAAAAAAAAAAA
T2 - BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

Should I cut and paste it so it looks like this:

T1 -AAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

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Now I have no sound except for one small clip within the 80 minute mix…

:confused:

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Now im cutting and pasting to get it like this

AAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

But everytime i do this its adding a gap after the join like this

AAAAAAAAAAAAAABB BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

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This is doing my head in… so after a number of hours trying export as a WAV, but having no luck… I opted to export as a MP3. This requires another app called LAME, I tried to install this, but f$&k me if I can manage to get the most simple of tasks done today…

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are you zooming all the way in to be sure there is no gap?

Use the SNAP TO function to make sure too.

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Yep, Doing all that… The gap seems to be appearing after the point at which I joined the files. maybe a minute after, nit at the actual join???

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Ok, got it sorted… I was trying to but join the tracks together and this is what was making Audacity corrupt the file.

In the end I overlapped the two tracks, by just a micro second and this was enough. Exported track as a WAVE… all good.:slight_smile:

Will post mix here as soon as soundcloud is sorted.