


To adjust the length of audio played before and after the selection, go to Cut Preview in the Playback Preferences. Playing either side of the selection would also be useful if you later wanted to cut a small piece out of that selection - you would select the small piece to be cut, then could preview how the audio would sound after the cut. This lets you make sure there is no audio you want to keep that will be removed.
#EDIT AUTDIO SNIPPIT HOW TO#
See below for how to create and adjust selections using the keyboard. These steps require a mouse, except for using Space on the keyboard to play the selection and C to play either side of the selection. To cut this audio file down to exactly 10 seconds, use these following steps. Walk through deleting all but approximately 10 seconds of selected audio Use the Zoom commands so that you can make maximal use of your Audacity window to see as much detail as you need, or to make sure you see the entire file when necessary. View > Track Size > Fit to Width (or Ctrl + F) will zoom the waveform so it fits in the window. View > Zoom > Zoom Out (or Ctrl + 3) is the same as clicking the Zoom Out button. View > Zoom > Zoom In (or Ctrl + 1) is the same as clicking the Zoom In button. There are also menu commands and keyboard shortcuts for zooming. Note that when you click the Zoom In button the cursor is centered on the screen. Keep clicking the Zoom In button until you see the detail you need. To zoom in to get a closer look at the waveform, first choose the Selection Tool, then click near the point you are interested in, then click the Zoom In button. The image above shows Edit Toolbar with the Zoom buttons highlighted. You do the same thing in Audacity: first zoom and select the range of audio you want to change, and then choose what you want to do with it. You might want to cut or copy the text, delete it, paste new text in its place, or change it to bold. When you are editing text you first select the text you want to change and then choose what you want to do with it. You edit audio waveforms in Audacity in much the same way as you would edit text in a word-processing document. Step 5: Create a 10-second clip from your audio On Windows, dragging the file to the Audacity icon in the Taskbar will either switch the window to Audacity if it is running (from where you can drag the file in), or if Audacity is closed, give the option to launch Audacity with the file imported.
#EDIT AUTDIO SNIPPIT MAC#
On Mac and Linux you can drag the file to the Audacity icon in the Dock or Taskbar respectively to import the file into Audacity.
#EDIT AUTDIO SNIPPIT WINDOWS#

First launch Audacity, then import an audio file by selecting File > Import > Audio.Ī quicker method is to just drag and drop the file as in the following examples:
