Audacity Forum

If the coder left behind metadata inside the file, then you win. Sometimes you can read those with a data ripper or viewer. Most don't and the inspection software tries to derive the information from what's there. That's only a guess.
Koz

You open up effects from the main Audacity editing window. Open a show and Effect > Change Tempo, for example. Your new effects, if Audacity accepts them, should appear at the bottom of the list.

Koz

Did you read the tutorial?

Audacity will not "Save" a sound file. You have to Export one. There's a number of steps to this, configuring Audacity, Splitting up the sound files into songs, etc. It's all covered.

Koz

Oh, and forget MP3 unless you want the work on your iPod or other music player. Audacity capture at 44100, 16-bit, stereo is directly compatible with Music CDs. MP3 creates permanent compression sound damage.

Koz

thence to the Mic input to my computer (Win XP) There are tutorials about how to do this, but that's the first problem. You can't do that on many Windows laptops. The Microphone Input on many if not most Windows laptops is first, mono, not stereo, and it's expecting a tiny delicate microphone signa...

I bet you run into the advertising froth. I bet two or more of the strings are going to sound very nearly the same and you're not going to be able to tell from the waves who's who. Actually, that brings up another display you can do. You can edit the strings to sound next to each other as one sound ...

I know I can use the TAB key to cause Audacity to Go To Next Label. What is needed is "Go To The Point In The Show Where A Label Points." I was responding to another post. Here's what was needed. 1. Copy 15 seconds of silence. Doesn't matter from where. 2. Place labels at fixed locations t...

Again if you wanted to go completely nuts (and who doesn't), take all the strings from the guitar except one. Assume steel. Then restring the guitar with one gut string tuned to the same note as the steel. That should eliminate many of the physical variations and time duration problems. Make them cl...

I'm very Computer literate, but Audio has me beat! Sound kills more projects and developers than any other problem. If you're at the end of your rope and you've been through all the tutorials and help systems (not all computers support Stereo Mix), then there is only one other option. http://www.hi...

While you can force AAC to have multiple audio channels, it's most often used as stereo. You can manage stereo AAC with the FFMpeg software plugin. Dolby® AC3 is the one with the 5.1 encoding and Audacity does not have a Dolby® decoder. I don't know that it can handle DTS or WAV6, either.

Koz