Hi Colin, Thanks for this info you posted. I have wanted to do this saving a file that has been marked with several regions or cues into several separate files, for instance when recording a whole LP and breaking it into files. I thought one could do this in Sound forge. I have SF10, but cannot find how to do it. SF tells me that Insert Regions is not available. If anyone knows how to do it in SF I would appreciate the info.
Peter Scanlon. . . From: Colin Howard Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:23 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Goldwave question Greetings, If you want to save parts of a file but not the whole as individual items, select each area in tern, by marking start and end with start and end markers, then in the file menu there is a save selection as, give it a name and save. If you require to save the whole file as tracks, such as if you've a concert and would like to save each item as a track, this is when the cue-markers become useful. In this case, you ensure first you are at the start of the file, once you begin to work with cue-markers, you cannot make any changes to the file, so ensure first, all edits Etc. are finished and the original file saved. also, be aware it is always wisest to work with files uncompressed, i.e when still in their .wav (or other) formats, not .mp3 or other compressed types. The more processing a file has undergone, i.e compresion and de-compression, the more sound degredation will occur and once quality has been lost, it cannot be retrieved. So, having made sure the file is as you want it, go to it's start and insert the first cue-mark, control with q. Now go on through the file, stopping where the next cue-mark is to be placed, I always first make sure by placing a start marker i.e left bracket then ensuring cursor is at start marker by pressing my home key, then issue control with q. Continue until you've reached the start for the last track and issue the control with q. Now, you are ready to split the file into it's items. In the edit menu, go to the cue-markers function which I think is open menu and cursor up to the sub-menu, arrow right into the submenu and down to the split file. Note, you can change cue-markers as there is a list of the ones you have set but I strongly advise keeping it simple for now, go to the split file within the menu. I cannot remember the tabs here, think they are self-explanatory, eventually you will find a save button, enter on this and ensuring you save into a location you want, allow it to work. You should end up with a set of tracks, what their names will be depends on how you process these tabs, but I tend to make then save as Track nnn (the first being 001) into a folder set aside for such matters. Then (I use Winamp) play the folder ensuring you have saved what you intended, if happy, close the file from which you saved the tracks but unless you want to keep the cue-markers, don't save the file. Cue-markers cannot be saved in a file other than, so far as I am aware, .wav format, if you try and save them, GW will warn you no way! but they can be saved in a file of the same name if I recall rightly, with the exdtension of ".cue" this will happen in the same folder in which the file from which you extracted the tracks, is saved. Remember, I am using GoldWave V5.70, the last which works with WindowsXP how V6.anything differs, as of now, I know not for though I have V6.14, have not yet installed on my W7 machine.
