Audacity Forum

Actually, that was a sore point with the developers. We have non-symmetric tools. We can't create "stereo" where suddenly the violins are coming from the left and the French Horns are coming from the right, but we can create two-track mono -- the same thing on two tracks. Select the track ...

The one word version is no. There are two latencies. Recording Latency is the one we can fix. That's the one where you sing in perfect time to your backing track and you adjust Audacity so your voice comes out in perfect time when you play it all back. Machine Latency is what your headphones get whe...

Common problem. Make sure Audacity > Preferences > Recording [ ] Playthrough is deselected. Make sure in Audacity Preferences or the Recording Drop-Down that you're recording a real device like your mixer, Line-In, Mic-In, USB Device, things you can touch, and not a "fake" device like WAV-...

Audacity will record anything presented to it by the operating system. You can jack the Headphone Out of a personal radio or the Stereo Line-Out of a larger radio or music system to your computer Stereo Line-In (usually blue) or in the case of a Windows Laptop, you may need to add a Stereo Line-In U...

Whereas Audacity does have a batch service called "Chains," I'm not so sure it has much of a command-line system. It would make programming Audacity something of a nightmare because remembering we have to do it in all supported languages and three different computer platforms. Koz

Effect > Normalize might be able to help. Normalize tries to set both left and right to the same volume level. I think you can use the default values: Remove DC, Normalize to -1dB and do the channels separately. See how that works. If that's not satisfactory, then you'll need to do it manually. Note...

_data folder is slowly eating itself or otherwise becoming damaged. the drive it is on is failing intermittently. that suggests the drive the file is on is flaky That's three times. Did we ever establish you're on Windows and which one? Start > My Computer > RiteClick C: > Properties > Tools > Erro...

A long message about how external audio info is missing, and 3 choices about whether I want to treat it as silence or, etc. etc. When you have these errors, do the stereo drums ever come back? That is, once you get the muting, that's the end of that segment of the performance forever? The blue wave...

It's exactly like removing white noise from a song. You can't remove white noise from a song and you can't fix this, either. Had you said that you performed the music and had all the component parts and loops available, then sure. But you can't take an already mixed song by somebody else apart. The ...

You can change the sample rate with the little window at the lower left of the Audacity program. But that won't make the show inaudible. If you do manage to shift musical tones down so far that nobody can hear them, you can't come back. This is a cousin to the MP3 dilemma. Once you compress the life...