Audacity Forum

Steve,

Great call........that was my problem. Thanks for providing the solution!!!!!

Wendol

When I load an mp3 song.......it loads/appears normal - songs length is 0 - 5:05 When I hit the play symbol.....two things happen simultaneously: 1.Audacity places a negative 1:15 worth of blank space at the beginning of the song 2. The song begins to play from the normal 0 position. When you stop p...

Now upgraded to Audacity 2.4.2

Same results on loading mp3, still adds negative time at beginning of track.

Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 Audacity 2.3.2 When I import an mp3 file......the initial import appears to be the correct length of the song. However when it begins to play, it is displayed with -(negative) time (2 min, 30 seconds) at the beginning of the song. I thought no big deal, I'll just delete the n...

Thanks a million!!!

I had two Audacity projects in progress, when all of a sudden we had a power outage. When power returned I tried to open Audacity and got this message: The system has detected that another copy of Audacity is running. Running two copies of Audacity simultaneously may cause data loss or cause your sy...

I am attempting to manually uninstall Audacity and do a reinstall. In doing so, I have located/moved 1 Audacity item file from Application Support to trash......and 2 Audacity files from Preferences to trash. When I attempt to empty the 3 files in trash, 1 file remains in trash with this message: Th...

As to the "why" of doing this........on some of the tracks with background vocals, just seem to over power the accompaniment, so by loading, one track w/o background vocals, and a second track with background vocals, I'm able to lower the bgv in one track and in that same section of the accp track, ...

Quick update......even with 2.1.3, I'm still not getting a quality song (volume not combined, and bad sound quality) when merging/combing the two songs. HELP!!!

I'm using OSX 10.9.5, and just upgraded to Audacity 2.1.3 I have versions of the same song in Audacity (one with background vocals, and one without background vocals). When each song is played individually, they sound great....however when they are played at the same time, it is like someone shut th...