Audacity Forum

This is getting pretty complicated, but I'll try to write this as briefly as possible. I am trying to import an m4a file into Audacity. Error Importing message: It's an "Advanced Audio Coding file, I need the optionalFFmpec library. I click the little question mark in the error dialog. Under Importi...

I am digitizing some monaural audiotapes. Audacity by default opens up a stereo recording window. Since the original recording is monaural to begin with, I do not need a stereo recording. I can choose Tracks > Stereo To Mono, but what this seems to do is blend the one track, which has audio, with th...

I have a turntable that I am using to digitize my LPs, and I discovered that it rotates slightly too fast. This is not too bad. In fact, I did not notice it until I listened to one of my recorded songs and then listened to the same song from another source. Normally, I do not mind my music being pla...

In Audacity, I have marked the tracks of some old family recordings with the name of each person speaking. I would like to save the audio so that the identifications will remain years in the future. Is the best way to do this by splitting the tracks into separate (aiff) audio files? Any way to keep ...

Does marking sections serve any purpose other than helping Audacity to split a recording into separate files? For example, are these marks supported by other applications such as iTunes? If other programs can read these marks, I thought they would be a handy way of marking separate sections of a lon...

Thanks, i think I see what you are referring to...in the Audio I/O tab of preferences, there is a popup next to "Channels." It originally said 1 (Mono) and I changed it to 2 (Stereo). Now during playback, instead of the two green playback bars activating at exactly the same level (indicating no ster...

I am trying to digitize my vinyl with Audacity. Everything seems to be working except I'm not getting stereo! I have a cord going from the stereo headphone jack to the Mac’s built in mic port. The LP itself is stereo. I tested the output jack on the phonograph with headphones and it is clearly outpu...