Export Multiple

The Export Multiple dialog appears in response to the File >Export Multiple command. This is where you tell Audacity how you want your project exported into multiple audio files.

ToDo I think a separate page for this is a must.
Is it anywhere else? - Gale

Export Format and Location

• Export format: Choose one of the available export formats from this menu.
• Options: Click this button to choose the options for the export format you have chosen. Note that not all format have options.

The choices of export formats and options are that same as those available in the File Export Dialog.

• Export location: Shows the location where the file will be exported to.
• Choose: Opens a standard file-save dialog box where you can choose the location where the files will be exported to.

Split files based on:

• Labels: Choose this option if your project consists of one stereo or mono track as well as one label track.
  The label track must contain:

Point labels marking the start of each section of audio you want to make into a separate file, or

Region labels spanning each section of audio you want to make into a separate file.

• Include audio before first label:: Check this option only if you do not have a point label marking the start of the first file, or do not have a region label spanning the first file.
• First file name: If you have checked "Include audio before first label", this option will be enabled. Type in the name you want used for the first exported audio file.
• Tracks: Export each track in your project to a separate file. Labels are ignored.

Name files:

• Using Label/Track name: Each file will be named according to the label if "Split files based on Labels" was selected, or according to the name of each track if "Split files based on Tracks" was selected.
• Numbering Consecutively: Label and track names are ignored. Instead each file is given a name based on the text in the "File Name Prefix:" text box followed by a number.
• File Name Prefix: The file name prefix to be used for consecutively numbered file.

Other Options

• Overwrite existing files: Any files in the chosen export location with exactly the same file names as the exported files will be replaced with the new files.

Examples

In the following examples the choices in the dialog would be: "Split files based on: Labels" and "Name files: Using Label/Track name".

• A project prepared for Export Multiple with a point label marking each song:

In this case the first file will be named "First song" and will contain the audio between the "First song" label and the "Second song" label. Similarly the second file will be named "Second song" and will contain the audio between the "Second song" label and the "Third song" label, and so on for the rest of the labels. The last file will contain the audio from the last label to the end of the audio track and will be named according to the last label in the label track.

• A project prepared for Export Multiple with a region label marking each song:

In this case the first file will be named "First song" and will contain the audio spanned by the "First song" label. Similarly the second file will be named "Second song" and will contain the audio spanned by the "Second song" label, and so on for the rest of the labels.

I don't know yet what happens in this case if there is audio past the last region label.

• A project prepared for Export Multiple with a point label marking each song except the first:
  In this case you would check "Include audio before first label" in the "Split files based on" pane of the Export Multiple dialog, and type a name for the first file in the "First file name" text box.

This is a case where you would want to check "Include audio before first label" and supply a file name in the "First file name" text box. The first file will be named whatever is typed in to the "First file name" text box and will contain the audio between the start of the track and the "Second song" label. Similarly the second file will be named "Second song" and will contain the audio between the "Second song" label and the "Third song" label, and so on for the rest of the labels. The last file will contain the audio from the last label to the end of the audio track.