Using Audacity to Quickly Combine and Condense Audio Clips

If you find my ATC audio clips helpful, then why don't you make some of your own?

Here is the process I followed using Audacity, a free audio editor (the screenshots only show steps 5, 6, and 8):

1. Go to the LiveATC archives.
2. Find a feed you like, and download one or more mp3 audio files. LiveATC.net breaks the audio into 30-minute segments, so you may want to download several files covering a few hours.
3. Open Audacity. You can find installation instructions on the Audacity website.
4. Drag and drop the mp3 files into a new Audacity project.
5. Select all tracks. On my Mac I use command-A, or you can choose Tracks > Select > All from the menu.
6. From the menu, choose Effect > Truncate Silence. The screenshot shows the settings I used.  You can tweak them, but you must choose truncate tracks independently. Click OK and wait for the process to finish.
7. Click Tracks > Align Tracks > Align End to End.
8. Finally Tracks > Mix and Render.
9. That's it! Now you have one track of condensed ATC audio for your listening delight!
10. If desired, choose File > Export Audio to save an audio file that you can share or listen to later.

Finally, please read the LiveATC terms of use. Lest you have any thoughts of writing a computer program to harvest files or selling the resulting audio files, I'll tell you right now that the terms of use don't allow that. Also, you should give them credit if you distribute files from LiveATC.net. But best I can tell, you are free to use and distribute the audio files from their web site for entertainment and educational use, as long as you don't profit from it.

​Have fun!