[Audacity-devel] Automation or scripting?

[Bob v. d. P. <bo...@me...>]

I'm working on my vanity CD right now and seem to be doing a few things 
over and over again ... can audacity do it for me?

Here's the short story of what I seem to be doing:

1. Generate tracks for a song, put them in a directory and use audacity 
to mix.

2. Generate a mixdown. I call this "mix.wav" for each song and store it 
in the same song directory.

3. Use audacity to do a final edit on "mix.wav". This final edit is 
really just to strip some leading metronome beats off the start of the 
song. They are in each track and a pain to delete from each track, so I 
leave them there. Also, if I ever decide to add or redo a track they are 
nice to have. Cutting them off the mix track is simple. I then save 
(export) the mix wav to my cd directory.

4. To keep the levels sane, I now use the util normalize-audio on the 
track in the cd directory.

What I'd really like to do is to not create a "mix" track at all; just 
go right to the final in the cd directory. But I can't resolve how to 
delete the leading junk, export, and then restore. If one has 10 or 15 
tracks it's quite hard to do a cut/delete off the start of all the tracks.

Running normalize is not a big deal and it could be scripted.

Oh, one more question: are muted tracks supposed to appear in an export? 
File->export seems to mix all the tracks, even those muted. So, again, I 
have to remove the tracks which I have muted before the mixdown.

Maybe I'm just using the wrong work order or missing a concept?


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