On 03/01/2013 07:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:24:12AM -0500, Carl T. Miller wrote: >> On 02/28/2013 09:38 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:21:50PM +0000, Nux! wrote: >>>> On 28.02.2013 12:32, Carl T. Miller wrote: >>>> After trying several Google searches, it looks like audacity is >>>> the audio editor of choice, but I'm finding it very difficult to >>>> work with. Notably I am not able to make a selection with finer >>>> granularity than a full second. >>> I don't understand,... I can select very fine-grained selections in >>> Audacity. You probably need to zoom in on the track so you can position >>> the cursor properly, but once you've done so, you can select very >>> precisely. >> Yes, that's what I expected. But even after zooming in with >> the zoom tool to where I see hundreths of a second, I still >> cannot select less than a full second at a time. > 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? > > because that's exactly what I've done manay times and it highlights > the part over which I've dragged the cursor, and I can cut it by > simply hitting the DEL key. > > Or are you trying to do it in some different way? I just wonder if this is an artifact from having started with an mp3 rather than a proper wave file? Just a thought. i.e. mp3 looses information compared to the 44KHz sample of most wav files, thus when it creates the reconstituted wav file it is not anywhere near the same, and thus probably interpolates much of the wav file. > I've placed a screenshot in my web space at: > > http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/Screenshot-korngold_01.png > > of an Audacity session with a selected region that neither begins nor > ends on a 1-second bounary. With that selected, I could hit the DEL key > and poof! it goes away. > > Note that at the bottom of the window it displays the begin and end > points of the selection, so you can see what has been selected. > > This is Audacity 1.3.12 Beta from the epel repository. Is that the > one you're using? > > Fred >
