Hi Shane
Sounds very much like you have inadvertently selected the whole song. A
potential trap is to have audio selected when you think it isn't. While some
think I am ultra-conservative, I often go to the end of the track by pressing k
and then to the beginning with j. In your case, reverse the order as you want
to be at the end. As David suggested, pressing shift+left arrow enough times
will highlight from the end. My level of impetuosity frowns on that approach,
but it works. You could press shift+comma which takes you back in 15 second
increments by default. Then play to the point where you want to start fading
and press x to stop. You could then use shift+k to select to the end of the
track, provided the song finishes pretty much at the end of the track.
Alternatively, play until the song finishes and hit right bracket (]).
I can remember having similar issues.
Andrew
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Subject: [audacity4blind] editing a small selection of audio for fade-out
Hi all. I'm trying to fade out the end of a song I'm working on, and I elect
the part of the audio that I want to fade, but when I go to do the fade-out,
and play back the result, the fade-oout starts at the beginning of the song
instead of at the end where I want it. Any help would be most appreciated.
Shane
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