How to ADD SILENCE to Any Audio File Using Audacity, Insert Silence to MP3 or WAV Recording

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how come when i add silence it just deletes the audio?

This program is garbage.

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I don't find an "OK" anything to hit after I add a second of silence at the beginning of the track. I also want to add 5 seconds at the end. NO "OK" there to make it stick.

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After a recent update, there's just straight up no time settings for anything now. I'm not sure how to set seconds for silence when the widget to set the amount of time doesn't even appear.

Brilliant - Well explained and great visual assist.

Thank you so much for this info!

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quick and ease. thanks

Very useful, thanks. It can be leveraged, for instance, for tracks, generated with MuseScore. Without doing that, when one reproduces those tracks in an audio player, music starts playing sort of immediately, and this is something we don't always want.

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MS, I would be deeply grateful if you could solve this. Gone from W10 Audacity 2.3.2 > W11 3.2.3 and everything is messed up. I'm dumping my vinyl 45's > mp3. On Audacity 2.3.2 I used to be able to 'pull' a Blank patch from 'Home' (Zero/Start) for about an inch to 'insert' (as it were) a period of silence, pre-start of recording. Can't seem to do this now. As W11 (tried every Sound/Settings permutation possible) is not infuriatingly not 'recognising' my desktop speakers - W10 did!), I am stuck with looping using WASAPI instead of MME, but can't seem to quickly insert the Blank I mentioned, even using the Selection Tool and Generating Silence post recording. Any suggestions, please? Also, On WASAPI the Pause button, er, doesn't!. Only STOP will halt recording.
Also, having recorded a Test piece, I then try via Selction Tool to insert a silent 2 secs at the Start. Instead a wide Silence 'Band' is injected through the centre of the recorded 'test'.

Doesn't work for multiple files.

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How about multiple files at once ?

Thank you! You just solved a problem for me

I did something like this a few years ago. It was much easier this time! Thank you for the video!

Thanks. Very straightforward.

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Thank you very much for posting these instructions. I have an audio with labels. At every label, I want to introduce a 5 second silence. Can I do this in audacity at a time for all the labels.

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