Audacity Forum

Thanks for that, will give it a whirl. Anything is worth a try!

Thanks for that, Steve. Unfortunately this is only one part of the project and I was looking for something a bit less time-consuming. I don't have the time to go through all the interviews (amounting to quite a few hours). I do appreciate your suggestion and might experiment with it when time permits.

Edit > Audacity Preferences > Audio I/O, then check what is set as your Playback Device.

Check also to see if you've muted anything in Volume Control.

I'm overseeing a heritage project where non-specialist volunteers are gathering oral history recordings. The subjects are mainly elderly and some have quiet voices. The recordings have been made at too low a level but I have improved them by normalising to -3 dB. Unfortunately there is considerable ...

Grovelling apology time. I traced the problem to a corrupt artwork image attached to the files. I detached the image and Audacity (both versions) opens the files as stereo, reattached it and they're back to mono.

T hanks for that, alatham, I've made the change as you suggest. What puzzled me was that I could use upper case Z , changing to lower case in the filename and track title in Properties with Windows Explorer. A s an retired ex-mainframe developer, I often wonder what did we do before we had computer...

I've just started using the Label Track facility and find I can't use the lower case character z in label names. Is this a known limitation (a.k.a. feature ) or have I discovered a bug?

Because others can open my file as stereo (and when all else fails), I uninstalled and reinstalled v1.2.6. I reprocessed the raw recording and split it into tracks. What did I get? Stereo!!!

Many thanks to those who responded or considered the issue, which should be considered closed.

I'm signing off for the night so I'll respond to any posts tomorrow, thanks to all.

T hanks for that, alatham, this is what I see: http://www.brentwoodit.plus.com/music/Audacity%20screen%20shot.jpg I also see a mono track when I open with Audacity v1.3.4. It seems that everything in that folder opens as mono, even though the file Properties say 2-track stereo. As a control, I can ...