Dear Andrew,
Thank you very much for your guidelines.
Seems this would help me in my course.
Could you explain the below please?
Put your cursor - say - 2 seconds from the end of the song (ask if you do
not know how).
Should I do this while playing the song? And should a selection made at this
point?
Please explore.
Thanks,
Ravi.
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Hi Ravi
As Ted suggested, put each song on a separate track. The next part of the
puzzle is to move the song on track 2 so that it starts playing a little
before the one on track 1 finishes and so on. In Audacity's Tracks Menu
there is a submenu called Align Tracks. You want the option called Start to
Cursor/Selection Start. Here are the steps:
1. Select track 1, and only track 1.
2. Put your cursor - say - 2 seconds from the end of the song (ask if
you do not know how).
3. Press Enter to deselect the track.
4. Arrow down to track 2 and press Enter to select it.
5. From the Tracks Menu arrow down to Align Tracks and press Enter.
6. Arrow down to Start to Cursor/Selection Start and Press Enter
That will have the song on track 2 starting two seconds before the end of
the one on track 1. If you wanted to be more elegant, you could do a cross
fade, where the first song fades down and the second one fades up as they
cross over. There is a cross fade facility in the Effects Menu which works
quite well. You need to have just the cross over section of the audio on
each track selected.
Andrew
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Hello everyone,
Greetings!
Hope this E-mail message finds all of you well & safe.
I am Ravindran from Sri Lanka. And just joined this list.
I am Blind and using Windows 10 with NVDA & Audacity latest versions.
Appreciate if someone could guide me how to overlap songs(MP3) in Audacity.
Actually, I want as below:
Assume, there are two songs. Either as separate tracks or merged in a single
track.
When the first song finishes, before it stops playing, I want the second
song to start while the first reaching its end.
We should be able to set a time period.
And should be able to get this done for a long list of songs merged in a
single music track.
Because when we merge several songs to a single track, there are silences in
between every song. But removing the silence, makes the songs play just one
after other.
But I want the songs to overlap towards the end of each song. If required
can have them as separate tracks.
Like to create a non-stop music file.
Hope my question is clear. Any suggestion would be a great help.
Please feel free to get in touch with me should you require any further
details.
Thank you, have a pleasant day!
Ravi.
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