I meant to write make sure your markers AREN'T doubled up (this happens, for instance if you mark two ends of a section, select it and then delete it, or if you paste in a marked section at the junction of another marked section)! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] separating tracks using Sound Forge 9 or 11. > Two ways to do this: > > 1. during recording, at the times between songs, hit the M key, which puts a marker in the file. > After doing all your processing, delete the green region (should be one region for the file). Put > the cursor at the very beginning of the file. Hit the M key, put a marker there. Do the same at > the very end of the file. Make sure none of your markers are doubled up (one way to do this is > save the file, then make sure all the marker numbers are sequential). SPECIAL menu > Regions List> > Markers to Regions. You will now end up with green region marks around each cut from the cassette > side. TOOLS menu > Extract Regions. Do the dialog box right, and it will save each region as a > separate file. > > 2. if you haven't marked off the "silence" between cuts (there is no silence on a cassette), then > do so after you've processed and saved the file. From there, follow above to delete the original > file-sized region, insert markers at the head and tail, convert markers to regions and extract > regions. > > If you want to get fancy, right-click the region numbers and choose RENAME to put in the actual > track name. The extracted files will now be saved under those names. I name these with the track > number, ie 01-Start Me Up, so the resulting file would be 01-Start Me Up.wav. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Roth" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 11:31 AM > Subject: [ARSCLIST] separating tracks using Sound Forge 9 or 11. > > > Greetings all > > Does anyone out there use Sound Forge? > I have to digitalize many cassettes and LPs. > When they're finished copying, I'll need to separate the individual tracks so I can make a CD > where you can choose which individual track you want to hear. > Right now, I do it manually (highlight, cut, paste and save). > Is there a feature which will do it all automatically by sensing a moment of pure silence and > cutting and pasting automatically? > That would surely be an enormous time saver for me. > > Can anyone help me there? > > Regards, > Ben Roth > Recorded Sound Archives > Florida Atlantic University > https://rsa.fau.edu/ > >