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#61

Technical Support / How to Delete a Wav file ?

Last post by Geek - March 24, 2026, 09:25:38 AM

Whilst I like the VinylStudio Program, the one thing that I do hate is the poor response to deleting a track. I imported several wave files with a view to creating a CD. There were two tracks that I wished to delete and after using a past Windows Program Spin It Again, I thought that the track would most likely be shaded out and not used after delete. What I found was that nothing seemed be done to the track and it stayed in place! However in the split track mode, all the track pointers - beginning and end – moved! They didn't move in any particular logical method but moved into parts of the recorded tracks. I spend no end of time moving the track markers to the silent parts thinking that I had got away with things. Then I find that the track is still listed but the listings do not relate to the tracks anymore! Furthermore trying to correct things within the track layout only make matters worse. The one irritation I find is that there is no explanation as to how track deletion works.

It would be good if this was explained. Thanks

#62

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 24, 2026, 09:21:14 AM

Hi,

We don't *intend* for there to be a timeout while waiting for you to drop the needle for side 2.  As an interim measure, you might like to increase the maximum recording time, perhaps there's a bug in that area.

As for 'Scan for Track Breaks' going wild and creating lots of tracks, we now have two reports of this but have not yet been able to reproduce the problem here so we can't diagnose it.  If you have a reproducible case, please let us know and we'll follow it up.

#63

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 18, 2026, 05:51:37 PM

Well, that mostly worked, but when I scanned for track breaks, after it found the proper tracks, it seemed to go nuts and create a whole lot of empty track breaks.  I hit Esc stop the break creation loop and used Del to delete the bogus ones, and after that all seems fine.

So the only remaining question is about starting side 2 cleanly -- who waits for who?

#64

General Discussion / Re: Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 18, 2026, 05:19:18 PM

I think I've answered my own question for the first part, at least.

I deleted all the tracks from side 2 of the first recording, and also all the second recording (nominally just side 2 track 1).  Now I'm re-recording side 2 as part of the second album.  My theory is that it will merge with the first recording. 

#65

General Discussion / Dealing with side 2

Last post by wallewek - March 18, 2026, 12:31:42 AM

I read the help docs, but couldn't see what I need to know about this.

VS does a really great job continuing recording of side 2 of LPs, but if you take too long to flip and drop the needle, it times out waiting and you need to click Record before you drop the needle, or it will cut off the start of side 2.  Am I missing something, and/or is there a way to extend that timeout?

Pursuant to that, I had this cutoff occur with and album I was recording yesterday, and I figured I could just re-record that first track and patch it in. But no, it appears there's no way in VS to do that, so can I just delete that side 2 recording and re-record it?  Or is there a better way I'm overlooking?

Thanks for all the help!

#66

Technical Support / Re: Great new way to clean up ...

Last post by wallewek - March 17, 2026, 09:45:50 PM

Right.  For me, the trick is to find the file name, as opposed to the recording name.  As a beginner, I do not find it obvious which is which.

But thanks, I'm think I'm OK there now.

#67

Technical Support / Re: Great new way to clean up ...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 17, 2026, 12:06:06 AM

Right-click on a filename is your friend.  Try it.

#68

General Discussion / Re: Viewing Discogs track list...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 16, 2026, 10:24:55 PM

Sorry, no, but if you use Undo, you can see the track splits before the adjustment was applied.  You can then use Redo to reapply them.

#69

Technical Support / Re: How to skip/silence part o...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - March 16, 2026, 10:07:36 PM

We are aware of all this   But we don't see an easy way of doing what you ask.

#70

Technical Support / Re: Great new way to clean up ...

Last post by wallewek - March 16, 2026, 07:12:43 PM

Further on this:  The Recordings (not file) list does in Cleanup Audio have a right-click function to "Save a copy" or Import sound files.  That's not available in some other versions of that list.  I'll try it.