Audacity Forum

In Audacity 1.3.13, MP3 Export Quality was set in Audacity > Edit > Preferences. We long since changed it to an extra step during the actual Export which is where most people expect to find it. It's actually compression bitrate expressed in kb per second, but many people just know it as the MP3 qual...

Without reading between your lines, you may have chosen a lower than required MP3 quality value. When you export to MP3, 64 is the lowest value that you can possibly use for a stereo show and 32 for mono. Those two numbers will give you a barely acceptable show on your iPod of other Personal Music P...

I think I'd start by treating the computer to a cold, dead restart if you haven't already. Reinstalling Audacity isn't simple. Audacity leaves pieces of itself around to make upgrades more convenient. "Uninstall" and "Audacity Settings" are both on this page. Scroll down. http://...

Now you need one of the linux elves. I'm out. Koz

But the piano piece played fine..........
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I'm stumped.

Maybe one of the other elves can come up with something.

Koz

I'm trying to think of a way Audacity could generate a feedback loop (what it sounds like), but I don't know that I can. Do you like to record internet audio? Are you familiar with Stereo-Mix as a recording device? Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording. What do you have selected there?...

The file is a recorded telephone conversation recorded from a VoIP system.

How did you get the file?

The same file in Audacity has the noise.

Will Audacity play anything else?
Pull this short sound file down and play it in a fresh Audacity.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2.wav

Koz

A note on backups. You should not record for multiple hours before saving your work. Audacity will not save a sound file. Audacity saves Projects. Projects save individual tracks, positions, editing points and general presentation, but they're not sound files. You can Export a WAV (or MP3) file. Tho...

1) It's probably easier editing later if you keep everything on one track. You don't have to use Pause. You can Stop completely and Append Record at any time with Shift-R. That will put your new dialog right at the end of the old every time. You can also press Control-M during the dialog to place a ...

You also inadvertently violated item number three. Every time you compress audio it gets rattier and harder to process. You went through two compression steps, the original video and MP3 -- each contributed sound damage. Koz