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Audacity 1.3.2 broken as designed

When I’ve spent the last 3 hours splitting tracks in Audacity, the last thing I want to see is:

audacity annoyance message

They’ve changed the way that Split works, so you now get a bunch of semi-useless ‘clips’ that you can’t do anything with. You can’t select a clip, or move them to new tracks (at least under Linux and OS X).

How apt that one of the tracks was trying to split was I Wanna Destroy You.

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4 Responses to “Audacity 1.3.2 broken as designed”

  1. scruss Says:
    November 12th, 2006 at 13:47:02
    I found a rather cruddy way of fixing this. The Audacity project file is XML, so you can grep out stuff you need. F’rinstance:

     grep ‘<waveclip’ project.aup | sort -n | uniq | sed ’s/<waveclip offset=”//; s/”>//;’
    This will give you a not-quite-in-numerical-order list of the clip offsets. Fiddling with this in a spreadsheet, adding track names, then doing ‘Import Labels’ will allow you to export as expected.

  2. scruss Says:
    November 15th, 2006 at 07:29:42
    Even then, after I’d finished the editing and saved the project, it corrupted it and made it impossible and go back to edit anything. I should stick to 1.2.
  3. scruss Says:
    November 15th, 2007 at 19:57:33
    looks like it works better now.
  4. We Saw a Chicken … » Blog Archive » auplabels - extract times of tracks in an Audacity file for adding labels Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 09:33:30
    [...] 1.3’s method of track splitting has always seemed a pain, so I wrote the above to help [...]

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