15
DIVIDING YOUR ALBUM INTO TRACKS
Note: You must finish all cleaning and editing, including
removing unwanted silence before/after songs, before
dividing your album into tracks.
1
Select the
Fit Project in Window
tool as shown in Figure 10.
2
After zooming out to see all of the tracks, you can see the separation between tracks by
the gaps as shown with 1,2,3 below (Figure 11). The next steps show how to split and
label these tracks and export them to WAV (CD quality) format.
Figure 11: Identifying Separate Audio Tracks
There are two ways to split your recording into separate tracks: automatically, and manually.
If your record is in good condition, and has a distinct silence between the songs, automatically
splitting the tracks may be faster and easier. If your record is in poor condition or does not
have silence separating the songs, manually splitting the album will work better for you.
Automatically Dividing Your Album (Windows Only):
1
Select your entire recording by selecting
Edit
, and then
Select…
then click
All
. You
can also use Ctrl+A on a PC or APPLE+A on a Macintosh to quickly select all. (See
Figure 4)
2
Select the
Analyze
menu from the top of the screen and choose
Silence Finder.
3
The Silence Finder will attempt to detect the silence between each song in the
recording. With most recordings, you only need to set the
Silence Level
field in
Silence Finder’s window. Type
15
into the
Silence Level
field and hit
OK
(Figure 12).
Figure 12: Silence Finder
