I'm looking for a program that can export a time track to a csv file, preferably in Windows. Do you know one?
I've already tried a bunch of free software, without success.
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This may be a better question / bug to address directly at Audacity. As far as I can tell, the export feature doesn't actually work for time tracks. It just exports a wav or aiff file, which isn't useful. My guess is that the feature is either not implemented or the current behavior is a regression.– ObscureRobotCommented Mar 3, 2013 at 2:03
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The time track coordinates are written into the audacity project file (.aup), which is effectively an XML file.
With this .aup file you have two possibilities:
- If you're a programmer, you can write a simple XML to CSV converter, that only extracts the XML tags you need.
- Some spreadsheet programs can read XML files, too. The following works for MS Excel 2010 Starter, but not with LibreOffice Calc 3.6:
Open an empty table and drag your .aup file into it. In the
resulting table there are 2 columns
/timetrack/envelope/controlpoint/@tand/timetrack/envelope/controlpoint/@valthat have your requested data. Just delete all the other columns and save this two-column-table as a .csv file.
Perhaps other users know an XML to CSV converter that does these steps automatically.
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My poorly phrased question wasn't specifically about Audacity, but rather about programs that have a tracks with a similar function to Audacity's Time Tracks. That said, option 1 is the best way to extract the Time Track's data.– DominikCommented Mar 3, 2013 at 19:58