User Manual

WAVELAB
16 – 346 Using Auto Split
About the “Learn regions from text file” option
You can split an audio file according to a description of regions stored in
a text file.
This works as follows:
• The text file must be placed in the same folder as the audio file, with the
same name, and with an extension that you specify in the WaveLab dialog
(e.g. “txt” or “xml”).
Each region is described by a name, a start position and end position (or a region length).
The text file is a series of such descriptions. WaveLab lets you specify a few parameters so
as to adapt to different text formats. Let’s start by an example:
Name=My region
Start=10000
End=20000
Name=My other region
Start=50000
Length=15000
The parameters are each identified by a tag. There are 4 possible tags:
• Region name
• Region start
• Region end
• Region length
These tags can be customized in the dialog. The text file must specify
either the “End” or the “Length” parameter. The “End” parameter is the
sample position right after the last sample of the region so that “End to
Start” equals “Length”.
• Each parameter (name, positions), must be located on a separate text
line.
This does include the XML style, which is normally allowed to do otherwise.
• The time values must be in samples or in time code format.
Hours:minutes:seconds:samples.
There are 3 possible text formats:
• “Tag” = “Value”: The tag comes first, then the sign “=”, then the value.
• “Tag” Tabulation “Value”: The tag comes first, then a tabulation sign, then the value.
• XML style: The tag comes first, surrounded by < and >, then the value, lastly the
tag surrounded by </ and >.
When you select this text format, the characters are expected to be in the UTF-8 format.