Owen Fahey wrote:
I wish to connect a number of recorded files end to end to create one long file. Can this be done? How?
Yes. Here is a simple and straightforward (albeit tedious) way to do this with WavePad.
Open the first two files, which will then appear on a split screen. Place the cursor anywhere on file #1 and press Ctrl-A, which selects the entire file. Then press Ctrl-X, which saves it to the clipboard.
Now move the cursor to the beginning of file #2, which is still on the screen. Then press Ctrl-V, which copies the contents of the clipboard to the beginning of file #2. You can see the result of this operation at the top of file #2, which shows the pasted file #1 at the beginning of the _combined_ two files, which are still referred to as file #2, even though this file is now the combined file.
Delete the blank file #1 from the screen (it went blank when you pressed Ctrl-X).
Now open file #3, which will then appear in a split screen along with the combined file of your previous manipulations.
Select the combined file (labeleled as file #2), cut it to the clipboard using Ctrl-X, then paste it to the beginning of file #3, which gives you a new combined file consisting of file #1 + file #2 + file #3, in the proper order.
Etc., etc., etc.
Repeat this process as many times as required to chain together all of the files that you wish.
This whole business is a lot easier to do than to explain. It is very simple in concept :-)
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