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I've noticed with some samples I tried to elongate or repeat Im getting a sort of clicking sound , Im using Audacity just now to tweak what I can and it nots terrible but its bit annoying if you want a clean sound , does any one have any suggetions ?

I noticed there was something on this program to get rid of clicks but it didnt do much..

I realise this probably varies depending on the sounds but any idea would be helpful or indeed leads where literal newbie like myself can get around these problems and perhaps learn a few tricks.

Books,websites whatever .. though the free-er the better !

Thanks

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Clicks can be caused by many things in digital audio. If you could give some examples of the processes your putting your samples thru that would help.
With repeated or looped sound the most common cause of clicks is that the loop point isn't sitting on a zero point in the sound wave. The zero point is the point at which the amplitude of the wave is neither positive (up) nor negative (down). Try using the Find Zero Points command (Z on the keyboard) in Audacity to help fix the beginning and end points of your loop and see if this helps.
Clickless loops can be made at other points in a soundwave but this requires zooming in on a waveform at pretty high magnification and making a good visual match; it's tricky but it can be done.
Manually finding zero crossover points is easier and sometimes works better than using the automatic zero point finders in most editing programs.
The same thing about zero points applies to simple edits in audio; sometimes a click can happen because the edit isn't resting on the zero point.
As for clicks in elongated sounds; that's harder to say without hearing the original. Elongating a sound can make a brief transient click a suddenly noticeable thump. With sounds that have been compressed; little flaws and distortions (politely called "artifacts" can become big and ugly once simple digital processes are applied to them.
I don't have any on-line references, unfortunately, but I'm sure my fellow freesounders will know of some good sites.

P.S. The Find Zero point command is under Edit in Audacity.

Yeah! I got that too....
I've solved the prob´with Audacity
Just use FadeIn at start and FadeOut at end of your Sample
The trick is that you fade only a few milliseconds of start/end.

Please try

( used this technique on some of my samples )