Audacity Forum

If you have SoundFlower set up right, you should be able to do it with the Audacity Speaker volume control. The computer volume control is part of the show, but the Audacity playback volume control is completely independent and you can squirt that anywhere you want in Audacity Preferences...like the...

What should I do to get started? Look for another program. Audacity is a post-production sound editor. You can edit the quality, sequence and timing of sounds you make somewhere else. Audacity does have generator tools, but they tend to be very granular. You can make one gunshot by creating the sou...

Are you sure that works with words? I have an app that works with music. But no, I don't know a way in Audacity. Maybe another elf will know.

Koz

Try exporting to your desktop and don't put any punctuation marks in the file name.

Today is 20170223 or 2017-02-23. Dashes are OK.

Koz

If you're hearing phasing, your fades may be too long. Some video editors never actually cut, they do 1/30 second crossfades.

Koz

It's good to know that Audacity famously doesn't have Clip INFO. That's why you need to either do it second hand, or use an external program. The audio tools are measuring audio . The highest sound that 96000 sample rate will manage is half. That would be 48000 Hz audio. Remembering that actual audi...

We're happy you got it to work, but it is a little concerning you needed Terminal to get there....
Koz

You can place labels in your production. Place one at the beginning and end of your clip. Labels are sticky and they will hold a drag. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html You can Zoom into the show to help you find edit points. There are many zoom tools but I only use three. Zoom (W...

File > Export Selected Audio.

Audacity doesn't Save sound files. To make a stand-alone sound file you have to Export one.

Koz

It is a text file in a particular form. It will open in Text Edit. You can tell Finder (desktop) to hide filename extensions. I think that's a terrible idea particularly if something goes wrong. Screen Shot 2017-02-22 at 7.06.49 AM.png Right-click or Control-Click the file > Get INFO. What does it s...