> or getting a "clicking" noise across clips that I had to remove by manually fading in/out each end of the clip

Are you sure this isn't just the typical "clip/crop a sample at the wrong moment, in the middle of a soundwave, and you'll get a pop/click"? This problem happens all across DAWs and hardware samplers and such, usually there is a way to "align to zero-crossings" when you wanna avoid it, or called something similar. I'd be surprised if Audacity didn't have that optionally since before, or that they didn't have it before but now with Audacity 4 it would suddenly be used automatically, that'd be somewhat strange too.

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dwringer 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At least with Reaper, if you cut an audio clip it will, by default, automatically apply small adjustable fade in/out envelopes to the ends so you specifically don't have to manually do it.

	▲	embedding-shape 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, every software/hardware seems to deal with this differently. The sampler I use the most (Octatrack) only jumps by zero-crossings when holding SHIFT, otherwise lets you freely create entirely new pops and cracks in your songs :)

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ancientstraits 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think you're right. Audacity does have a "zero-crossings" thing, but when I tried using it a long time ago, it didn't seem to work, and I just learned to do fade-in/out for everything. Maybe I did something incorrectly.

	▲	embedding-shape 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I just learned to do fade-in/out for everything. Maybe I did something incorrectly. This is the de-facto standard practice for fixing/working around that particular issue, so I don't think it's incorrect at all :) Besides, however you fix an issue and it sounds good, it's correct :)

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folkrav 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep that was my thought as well. Most DAWs default to a very quick cross fade when joining two clips for this very reason.