How To Unpack
- Make sure that the file you want to unpack is selected.
- Open the toolbox menu.
- Click on Unpack towards the bottom of the menu.
- You will see a few things:
- Minimum Separation time (in seconds)
You have to set this according to the smallest amount of silence between your songs. It gives the program a base to begin looking for silences beyond what you specified. - Detection Threshold
The selection (anything between 1 and 1000) should be made in accordance with the recording level and intensity of background noise. If the threshold is too low, the outlier detector may fail to localize silences between subsequent tracks; if it is too high, silent parts of the recording may be mistakenly classified as breaks. - The "Find" button
In case there is a piece of silence at the beginning of the recording, even if it is fairly short, you can press the "Find" button situated next to the detection threshold box and the value of the threshold will be adjusted automatically. - After making the necessary selections, you are ready to Unpack. Click the process button.
- You should now see the Verify Cuts dialogue Box with the following items:
- Total number of cuts proposed:
This is the total number of cuts that the program suggests. - Cut No.
When you select the Cut No. you can listen to the cut by clicking play. If you decide you do not want that cut you can click reject. - Change
This allows you to change the file name prefix of the tracks you are separating. - Playing Time (seconds)
This is the length of time (seconds) in between each song. - Process
Click Process when you are satisfied with your cuts and selections, and the program will begin to unpack your songs. - Cancel
Click Cancel if you are unsatisfied with your cuts, and the program will not do anything to your original sound file. After clicking cancel, you can try the Unpack utility again with a higher or lower threshold, respectively. - After making all of the necessary selections, and you are happy with your cuts, you can click on process to unpack your sound file.
- When the Unpack utility is complete, you should see all of your tracks, separated and named with the correct track number following the file name prefix.
NOTE: You may have some tracks that you don't want. After making the cuts you can just delete these. Sometimes it is better to accept all of the cuts (unless they are in the middle of a song) and just delete the files that you don't want in your playlist.