On 02/28/2013 08:15 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 03/01/2013 07:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >> What I think you're saying is: if you place the cursor at a location >> that is, e.g., 1.43 seconds into the clip, right-click then drag (in >> either direction) until you've selected the part you want to cut, that >> Audacity moves the endpoints of you selection from where you put them >> to a whole-second point? > > I just wonder if this is an artifact from having started with an mp3 > rather than a proper wave file? I finally figured out what the problem was. I started audacity at the shell prompt with the name of my wav file as a parameter. After doing more searching, I found that audacity will not allow edits to an original file. So I started audacity without any parameters, opened the wav file, and saved it as a project. I was then able to edit it. I just wish that audacity warned me that I was in readonly mode. Otherwise everything else about it was pretty intuitive. Thanks for all of the suggestions! c