How to Split Audio in Audacity? | Audacity Tutorial For Beginners

If you're a total newbie in Audacity, you have to watch this video!
I'll explain the absolute basic: How to split and move audio in Audacity. In this Audacity Tutorial 2022, I'll show you how to split audios for edits and how to move them around.
As a little extra help, I'll share with you the keyboard shortcut to split an audio file!

This video is part of my Audacity tutorial series for beginners 2022. If you want to learn more about improving audio, check out the entire playlist:

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0:00 How to split Audio in Audacity?
0:07 Check out my Audacity Course!
0:23 Intro MRC
0:33 How do you Split one Audio file?
1:05 Delete the Audio Parts you don't need
1:12 Move the Audio Parts around
1:22 Use this Keyboard Shortcut!
1:37 Use my Audacity presets!
1:58 Outro MRC

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🎙Cool Stuff For Audio Creators🎙

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Hi there! I'm Mike Russell from Music Radio Creative. I am an Adobe Certified Professional and my aim is to teach you the secrets you need to know to create better-sounding audio with the use of various techniques. From Adobe Audition tips and tricks to your choice of microphones, audio gear, home recording setup, and many more! Podcasters, Livestreamers, Filmmakers, and even YouTubers can make use of what I am about to show!

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#audioediting #audiotutorial #audacitytutorial

[MCLUHANVIDEOS]

Perfect, thank you. I think I'm going to use it.

[judge]

Your videos are really helpfull
Thankss mike❤️❤️❤️

[Mikee]

Hi Mike, great video. The annoying thing about audacity is that if you have music which is in m4a format, you have to convert it to wav file.

[cymbalchick]

How do I split the elements of a song? I’m trying to do a personal “remix” of a song, but I don’t know how to split vocals from instruments. Can you help please?

[jxut]

Mike, new to Audacity and looking to edit and split one Audacity file into multiple smaller files (i.e., one file with 5 Q&A segments that I'd like to have in 5 separate files). Do you have a video already with this type of instruction? Thank you!

[notsureaboutthis]

Hey Mike! Thanks for all you do in teaching about how to make audio better :D I was wondering though - do you ever take questions/audio samples from people to answer in your videos?

I ask because I have a recurring problem in my audio editing that I'm not sure how to explain without giving a sample (which makes it hard to research a fix for it)

[muhnochwa]

Hi, Mike could you please share your microphone settings in Audition, i really liked the output texture of the voice, therefore wish to use the same settings, thanks.

[PhoenixRisingRadiantRadio]

I do not have the time shift tool. My platform looks quite different than yours. Gotta love the constant change of tech.

[antiracialgamingq]

I have 5 charaters for Halloween. I want each character to have a different voice and play on different channels. So Rudy will play only on front left speaker, Captain Jack will play on front right speaker, and so on. Can you please let me know where to go to find out how to do this?? Thanks for the videos and haelping me start a new software.

[dumbhead]

Hope all is well, I am trying to separate the music and speaking from and audio book but am so lost, is this possible?

[KirstyHall-iehi]

Hello I have an audio recording which my dog is barking during- is there any way to remove that to hear what else is happening at the time?

[gwoodard]

I would like to create two characters with different voices using my own voice for both or maybe more voices.

[elbohemio]

Hi friend. I need to separate almost one voice from a Guitar Trio. How can I do that? It is a mp3 audio with 3 guitars. I've been trying to do this about 1 year ago but I can't. It's difficult...Please, help me!!! Thanks

[fudgesauce]

Here is something I'm currently struggling with and I've been trying to find a video that explains it. This one doesn't address it either.

Say I have seven tracks: mic, guitar 1, guitar 2, bass, drums, etc loaded up into audacity. They all came off a multitrack recorder that captured the events of a band rehearsal. We spent 2.5 hours going through different songs, often multiple times.

I can identify that, say, "Row row row your boat, take 17" starts and begins at a certain place in the timeline. I can click on one track and hit Ctrl-I to cause a split point, but it splits just that one track. I could manually do it for each track but (a) it is more work and (b) there is 100% chance I don't put the cut point at exactly the same place in each track.

So, getting to the question: if I have N tracks, how do I export a certain start/stop section of all the tracks to their own files? Thanks

[CLASSICALSNature]

Thank you but how do you split up components of a song so you get just the song and not all the people chatting, cars rumbling etc., in the background, lol. Is that possible?

[charulathadr]

Mike sir i have one doubt...how can we separate only one voice where it was mixed with another voice...how can we separate 2 different voices

[MySongs-witb]

Hi I have an old Audio. Where me and someone else is speaking. When I open it in audacity it opens as one track. If I want to separate what I said and what other person said, as 2 separate tracks, how to do it in audacity?

[dhanushnagekar]

I am not finding the Time shift tool in my Tool box. Kindly Help on it please.