Hi Ravi,
just to add that an alternative to step 3 in Andrew's instructions.
You can move the cursor backwards or forwards by a short period by pressing
the comma or period keys respectively. By default the short period is 1
second. So in your case, once the cursor is at the end of the audio in the
selected track, you could press comma a small number of times to move the
cursor back a few seconds.
David.
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 09:56, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Ravi
Should I do this while playing the song? And should a selection made at
this point?
You do not have to, but you could. If I was doing it, I would get each
song onto its own track, leaving no silence at beginning or end. You could
then:
1. Select just the first track.
2. Press k to go to the end of its track.
3. Press left bracket ([) to find out the length of the track and to
move the cursor back by 2, 3 or whatever seconds.
4. Deselect the track and continue as I described in the previous
email.
No, do not make a selection at that point.
If you have not investigated the dialog that appears when you press the
left bracket key (the one to the right of p), it may take some
familiarization. However, it is well wroth it. You can either key in
values or use up and down arrows to select hours, minutes etc.
Andrew
*From:* audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <
audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *ravivssl@xxxxxxxxx
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*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Re: Help in Overlapping songs.
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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audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Andrew Downie
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 8, 2020 8:07 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Re: Help in Overlapping songs.
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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*Sent:* Wednesday, 8 April 2020 1:11 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Help in Overlapping songs.
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.
Ravivssl@xxxxxxxxx
