Re: [Audacity-devel] Feature Request Bugs and stuff

[Graham M. <gr...@gr...>]

>> Right now there's a feature request for splitting by silence that appears
>> 4-6 times or so.  Does anyone know the story behind that?

> This is probably a command that has no particulary wonderful use in
> Audacity, because it usualy involves splitting existing material in to
> multiple clips, and we could only get 1-clip/track, and thus a big bunch
> of tracks as a result.

I'd think this feature would be most useful to those using Audacity to split 
apart recordings from cassette or vinyl, where you've got one huge WAV that 
you want to easily chunk into discrete tracks.

You'd have one stereo track, and then splitting that into multiple tracks 
would be fine, because then you could just export each track to WAV and be 
done.

Of course, when you're importing from relatively noisy cassette, what exactly 
constitutes "silence" might be tricky.

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