Audacity Forum

Linux is a computer operating system. Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux. That's the software that makes a pile of expensive electronics into a useful computing tool. They don't actually do anything by themselves. They allow you to create, buy, or download tools and applications to do useful ...

Audacity has a tool called Snap To. It drags your cursor to the next nearest time interval. In Audacity 1.2 it's Edit > Snap To. In Audacity 1.3 it's a setting on the bottom of the edit window.

Koz

If the sound card does additional tricks compared to a very old SoundBlaster, then the maker has to include a control panel to manage the services. Even the newer SoundBlasters had one. I have a Blaster with 6 channel output and digital inputs and outputs and the control panel goes for several pages...

Many M-Audio devices use ASIO software drivers. ASIO makes terrific, well behaved software that they insist on being paid for. So Audacity doesn't support it. See if there are Windows drivers for your product There was a trick from an earlier posting. Drill down to the Device Manager and disable the...

<<<1.3.10>>>

Yes, people fell off either direction. Either up to 1.3.11 or down to 1.3.x. I never stopped using 1.3.7, so I'm watching the progress.

Koz

<<<I am the sole user of my computer.>>> What I meant by that is somebody is sneaking in your internet connection and using your machine without you knowing. Malicious computer break-ins used to be somebody trying to get attention by flashing messages on your screen, metaphorically kicking over the ...

In this case "Stable" Audacity may be a little optimistic. Pull down 1.3 and see if that doesn't work better.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

That's different.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... e_computer

Koz

Without knowing anything else, change Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo and restart Audacity. Try it again. If you're trying to capture a USB microphone, it's 44100, 16-bit, Mono. Restart and Capture.

Koz

I change the default compression (the first number) to .77 from .5 and Chris does a really good job simulating the local radio station. On-Line presentations and Podcasts do not go through radio station compressors, so it's very difficult to listen in the car. Loudness variations are much greater th...