Audacity Forum

Koz was posting as I was writing this. Unfortunately in 1.2.x, the time shift (move) tool does not operate on multiple tracks. Shucks. Actually this brings up a more serious problem. Audacity 1.2 is only partially supported on modern Macs. Of the three systems I have, one will not run Audacity 1.2 ...

I figured it out man.

How? Remember this is a dialog and people are watching.

Koz

Audacity doesn't edit sound files. Audacity converts the music to a very high quality internal format and edits that. Then you have to Export a whole new sound file and that can be any size and any format you wish. If you want to directly edit something like an MP3, then you need a dedicated MP3 edi...

Well, it did change the signal and exactly as advertised, but it didn't help. I'm beginning to think my live capture is a victim of room echoes and resonances that happen to line up with the notes. Ah, well. Worth a shot... Oddly, some passages benefit from a slight increase in peak compression. The...

Yeah. Here it is. File > Export > WMA > Options > bitrate. Keep reducing the bitrate until the size comes out right. Audacity doesn't directly edit most files. It converts the music to an internal format and then you have to Export a whole new file.

Koz

Windows Media is a highly compressed audio system. If you open a WMA file and do almost anything to it, it's going to get bigger, or if you leave it the same size, it may get damaged and sound funny. You loaded FFMpeg into Audacity, right? See if it will let you export a new WMA file and tune the co...

Did you actually press Stop in Audacity? If you only Pause the recording, Audacity will not let you Save. What exactly are you recording and how? Microphone in front of a guitar? Press Stop and see if Audacity will let you Export As WAV. That will give you a sound file you can open later. I recorded...

You can import the new track at zero time with all the others, then select the others (Shift-Click in the left tool panel until you have them all). Then select the Time Shift Tool (two sideways black arrows) click one of the tracks and push sideways. They should all move the same amount in relation ...

How many multiple tracks, which Audacity exactly and what operating system?

Koz

I can't wait to try it for real. I applied it briefly to piano2.wav and it worked, what was the phrase, as on the tin.

I can't shake the idea I'm opening a technological container of biscuits. "I bags the ones with the pink frosting!"

Koz