Audacity Forum

Most of our failures are caused by a fan failing, something overheating and the system shuts down. You have an electronic celebrity.

Koz

There are instances where "illegal" characters inside metadata can cause severe damage in the file. It is the impression of the developers that many of these instances have been eradicated, but not all. The desperation method is use filename legal characters only. Upper and lower case lett...

My first recording of just vocals with effects was saved to music files. Those are the wrong words. Audacity doesn't save music files, it saves Projects and Exports music files. Some of the tools will open up in the last known good settings. The equalizer tool will do that. Noise Removal opens up t...

Audacity is not a good converter. Super or Switch on Windows. iTunes on Mac. Something Is Broken. You produced 48000 sample rate files -- or at least QuicKTime thinks you did. QuickTime also thinks your file status is wonky, hence the missing bitrate number. Are you sure you're using Audacity 1.3.12...

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Three days ago I had a computer crash

Why? Computers don't just go up in a ball of flame.

Koz

Your records are in terrific shape, how about your computer? When was the last time you defragmented and error checked your hard drive? Audacity will not run into a highly fragmented drive. How full is your drive? Most production programs demand 10% to 20% free space before they will run properly. D...

Is this normal that it does not? It's perfectly normal to have problems with this. Overdubbing doesn't have a wiki or instruction page because it's so abysmally complicated and prone to failure. Many people find they have better luck with a small external mixer and good microphone over trying to ma...

Another note, mixing to music can make a big difference. Most people including real singers sound very lost without some instrumentation running to back them up. Really real singers, of course, can sing on the subway and sound fine. There is a bike path in Los Angeles that goes under a freeway along...

Many people find that they enjoy singing in the bathroom because the echo and reverberation make them sound really good. Try applying Effect > GVerb -- lightly -- and see how it sounds. Don't bother with Audacity 1.2. Audacity 1.3.12 has all the good tools and filters for sound management. Without b...

The blue/green line is a rubber band. You click on it and push. Then you click somewhere else and push again. Up is louder and down is softer. Pitch goes up to the right. Here's one I made to help with rumble in a recording. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/100Hz_Rumble.jpg Each of those little dots o...