Audacity Forum

It's perfectly valid. This is not a large, rich corporation. It's just a bunch of volunteers cranking out code — and helping with the forum. Each new version creates new opportunities for errors, so smoke and fire problems do get first crack. "How come my half-hour recording is silent...?"...

We agree with you that one sample reaching 0 is not cause to have a red bar, so I believe the latest series of Audacity programs wait for three or more. If you have three successive samples jammed at 0 the chances are really good that there is damage or distortion worthy of attention. the option to ...

"Portable Settings" folder

I appear to have independent settings and preferences without such a folder.
Koz

Furthermore, you can have each Audacity version have it's own preferences and other local settings by creating a "Portable Settings" folder, like this: Excellent. Now you know I'm going to ask you where is that written other than right here, right now? I did a fly-over on both the on-line...

Now we're talking about a bug. Multiple people on different machines experiencing the same unintentional evil behavior. ~~ You can install multiple Audacity versions on your Mac by creating a unique folder in /Applications and installing your Audacity to that (attach). In my case the "real&quo...

The up side of repeated postings is your moderation will go away and your postings will appear immediately.
Koz

There is a way to install a "portable" version of Audacity and have that separate and distinct from the regular install. In this way you can have two different Audacities without constantly reinstalling.

I don't know how to do that in Windows and I can't find the instructions.

Koz

You missed the step where you opened the original WAV file in Media Player with no Audacity at all.

Koz

the audacity application open on my laptop for a while, while I was doing other things. OK, so I still don't have this whole thing. How did you record the interview? Exact physical conditions. Were you both speaking into the Air? I've done that with a MBP. What were the "other things?" Al...

Thank you. When you're waving the "B Word" around, it's good for us to be able to exactly reproduce your work.

"When you have a 44100, 32-bit Stereo show duration of XX and you cut from YY to ZZ, etc."

Was the original show compressed (MP3, etc.)?

Koz