Audacity Forum

I've studied all your replies. Lots of good stuff in there. Thanks for your input.

Hi. I am creating very short (1-5 seconds) mp3 clips for a language-learning app, the same type of thing as DuoLingo. Could anyone advise on best practice? The results so far are decent but not uniform, and sometimes quite sub-par. My process: Noise Reduction: about 15 dB - sounds good at 50% volume...

As you have suggested, I've set my Import/Export option to "Make a copy of uncompressed audio files before editing (safer)". For the moment, this is working...fingers crossed that that's the full solution. If any re-occurance, I'll explore the 'dependencies' further (looks a bit techy...). Thanks bo...

After much time spent meticulously editing glitches out of a recording, I save as an Audacity project file. Then to my horror, I listen to the file and find that it is full of gaps...chunks of the recording have vanished into thin air ! This has now happened several times... Mucho time wasted, mucho...