Audacity Forum

there is another green in the back that's also plugged in. I think I'd work on that. What do you mean there's another green on back? Do you have two sets of connectors on your machine? It's not unusual for the machine to switch them in and out depend on which one is connected. Clear everything, plu...

I would think or assume that you folks that run this forum would need a fairly large full time staff, of many moderators, to moderate every single post that came into this forum. On the contrary, it's much easier now that we don't have to catch them in real time. They wait for us to pick them off f...

Which version of Audacity are you using? Help > About.

Click inside the blue waves, not in the thin strip above the waves.

Koz

Could you be talking about dithering? Audacity adds a tiny bit of noise to exports to ease the transition from 32-bit floating to 16 bit PCM. You can turn it off in Edit > Preferences > Quality > Conversion. You may not want to because the distortion goes up when you do that. I think that only happe...

Calm down. Breath. Breath.

This may be a known Windows problem. Does this help?

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... hancements

Koz

Was this an existing MP3 file that you're editing to achieve some production effect?
Koz

Please also note that you only get to MP3 once, to coin a verb. If you try to edit a song that was compressed in 64, you will need to export it at 320 or higher to avoid any further compression damage. All the compressions on one song add up -- and not in a good way.

Koz

Anything over 256 is pretty good and you're unlikely to notice any serious compression damage. The minimum for stereo is 64 using a good compressor on original work, so 256 or anything above that is terrific. Audacity default is 128. I believe the highest pre-packaged compression bit rate on a Mac i...

It's not as dreadful as you think. Start with a highly compressed and processed and legal music file. The peaks of the waves are just below or maybe exactly at 0dB. Now create an MP3 music file. MP3 is not an exact copy of the original work. MP3 plays very sophisticated games with the quality and co...

Just a note that if your show sampling frequency is 44100, the highest reliable, accurate audio frequency that the system will manage is 17KHz. Audio tones up to 20KHz are the result of system noise, inaccuracies and guesswork. So massive frequency conversions to a higher pitch are likely to generat...