Audacity Forum

Windows 7, Audacity 2.0.5, installed from the .exe I'm editing a sound effect MP3 that needs to play with no delay. But when I export it Audacity seems to insert .05 secs of silence at the front. That doesn't seem like much, but the sound is just a brief click, so the delay is noticeable. I edit the...

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When I record from Wave Out Mix, like the playback from Finale, what am I capturing? Is it the original digital format from Finale's sample libraries, or has the sound card already converted that to an analog signal, which Audacity has to reconvert to digital (with some presumed loss of fidelity)? I...

I've tried twice to install 1.3.8: first on top of 1.3.7, then after de-installing and deleting everything and starting blank. Both times, when I try to run Audacity it churns for a while with no visible window, then I get this cryptic error. After I reply, audacity.exe is still running, but doing n...

Wait, I don't understand. I've used Effect->Change Pitch many times, and never noticed that the time or tempo was affected.

Any chance you're pressing Play-at-speed (the green arrow next to the slider) instead of Play (the big button on the control toolbar)? Is the speed slider all the way to the right, i.e. 3 x normal speed?

What options do you see in the drop-down box in the upper right (microphone, line in, etc.)?

The Effect menu lets you Change Tempo, which slows playback without changing pitch. I don't know how much fidelity you lose if you slow down a track, then use the same effect to speed it up again.

I don't have a DVD drive, so I can't test this. But have you tried setting Audacity to record from Wave Out Mix? I'm just speculating that this will be the audio from your DVD.

If I understand your question, the solution is to size the window and the height of all tracks so that they are all visible at once, then select the same range of each track by swiping across all of them with your mouse button down.