Sound Forge question

[Hardbopjazz]

Would anyone know how to remove gaps between tracks using Sound Forge? I'm trying to save 2 live shows someone gave me. Each tunes is broken up into 10 to 12 files. I want to link them together.

Edited December 14, 2005 by Hardbopjazz

[couw]

my guess would be that you open two subsequent files. Select the entire wave form in the second file (ctrl+a), copy to the clipboard (ctrl+c), go to the first file, scroll to the end of the wave (hit [end] button) and paste the clipboard contents there (ctrl+v). Open the third file, select all, copy and paste at the end in the first, now appended, file, etc...

[Hardbopjazz]

Thanks. I tried that, but I still seem to end up with a 2 second gap between tracks even though they are merged together.

[couw]

Thanks. I tried that, but I still seem to end up with a 2 second gap between tracks even though they are merged together.

that must mean they were extracted track by track instead of disc-at-once. If the extraction problem is not on your end, you will need to zoom in on the silent gaps in the merged waveform, select the gaps and cut them out one by one. You may need to zoom in so far that you no longer have the entire gap visible. Zoom in till you can point the cursor to the start of the gap with sufficient accuracy. Zoom out so you can see the end of the gap as well. Hold the [shift] key and move your cursor to the right to select approximately until the end of the gap. Zoom in and move the slider so you get a good view of the end of the gap. Press [shift] and use the cursor keys to accuratedly place the end of the selected area at the end of the silence. Hit delete. That should do it. Zoom out to get a larger area, play back to hear the result of you actions.

[Hardbopjazz]

Thanks couw, that worked.