Audacity Forum

Thank you, Gale. You turned out to be right on both counts! I was inadvertently using the 32-bit WAV option and none of the consumer-grade programs I'm using would take that. It also smoothed the process to open the files from within the burning program, although it mostly worked ok with drag and dr...

Windows 10, Audacity 2.1.1 In the past I have successfully edited wav files in Audacity, then saved the results using "export selection" as wav files, then later made them into audio CDs using Roxio or CyberLink Media Suite. Windows Media Player was not reliable on Windows 10. But the latest ones, t...

Thanks for this advice. The challenge is that I am simultaneously recording a way-loud priest, wispy unamplified children's choir, and moderate, unamplified adult choir. If I went with ALC, the musical dynamics would be lost, which in the case of these very beautiful Orthodox Liturgies would be a sh...

I often edit Liturgical recordings, made on a Marantz digital recorder (.wav files). Sometimes we have a priest with a microphone who booms and totally overloads the digital recording. When I try to bring the amplitude down in Audacity(r), it causes a "flat" clipped result which sounds more distorte...