I noticed that, when you remove parts of audio clips, the source audio file remains intact – which is usually fine, because it allows to retrieve the deleted parts later if needed, e.g. by extending the clip's boundaries again.
However, there are times when you'd rather have the unused audio data completely removed, in order to save disk space. Is there a way to do that?
I'm aware of the "Utilities > Clean Audio Folder" feature, but as far as I understand, it removes audio files that have become totally unlinked to any project, as a whole. In my case, the files are still linked: I would like to remove only parts of these files that are no longer used, so that (e.g.) a 10MB file becomes a 2MB file.
I have tried the functions from the clips' drop-down menu, but it doesn't seem to help.
To be more specific, my use case is the following: I have a huge audio Cakewalk project that has become too big to handle, and I'd like to split it into smaller files by keeping only one song in each Cakewalk project, rather than keeping all multitrack songs in the same Cakewalk project. However, I'm afraid that splitting the project won't help if each smaller project resulting from the split still includes all the original audio data.
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Deesnay
Hi there,
I noticed that, when you remove parts of audio clips, the source audio file remains intact – which is usually fine, because it allows to retrieve the deleted parts later if needed, e.g. by extending the clip's boundaries again.
However, there are times when you'd rather have the unused audio data completely removed, in order to save disk space. Is there a way to do that?
I'm aware of the "Utilities > Clean Audio Folder" feature, but as far as I understand, it removes audio files that have become totally unlinked to any project, as a whole. In my case, the files are still linked: I would like to remove only parts of these files that are no longer used, so that (e.g.) a 10MB file becomes a 2MB file.
I have tried the functions from the clips' drop-down menu, but it doesn't seem to help.
To be more specific, my use case is the following: I have a huge audio Cakewalk project that has become too big to handle, and I'd like to split it into smaller files by keeping only one song in each Cakewalk project, rather than keeping all multitrack songs in the same Cakewalk project. However, I'm afraid that splitting the project won't help if each smaller project resulting from the split still includes all the original audio data.
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