Audacity Forum

Thanks, Koz! Very clear, and concise!

Thanks again! You are a wonder. I am ignorant of some basic understanding here and if you are so inclined perhaps you could enlighten me: Why does putting the track through a high-pass filter with a low cutoff remove the dc offset? It does, obviously but I dont understand why? Is it a by-product of ...

I am trying to import an mp3 that can be found at this address: http://vocalharmonies.com/music/tags/tag-001.zip The track I am having trouble with is tag-001-bs.mp3 When I try to open or import this track, the beginning of the track is chopped off. When I play the mp3 with Totem (yes I am on linux)...

My recap is as follows: I grabbed an old ibm thinkpad that I have that only has 256mb ram, wiped the XP virus off it and installed xubuntu. I then installed Audacity using Add/Remove and got 1.3.4 I had to run alsamixer from the console to get turn on and off the correct capture channels but everyth...

Well, pulseaudio is definitely not the problem as I am running Gutsy.

Which might also be the problem, but this was working for me so well for so long.

I tried 1.3.4 using gutsy backports, but it was far worse.

I am apparently way behind version-wise because some of the choices you mention are not available to me. I am running 1.3.3 from the Ubuntu library. Perhaps I should upgrade to the latest beta? BTW: My audio i/o settings were as you specified, so no improvement there. I do not have a 'show clipping'...

I am very sad and frustrated. I used to be able to play back audio and record at the same time (with play-thru turned OFF) without any skipping. Now no matter what I try I get skips during recording. My test setup is to import some raw audio, and just start recording. Eventually I hear the audio ski...