Audacity Forum

We warn people against trying to do production in a compressed format. WAV is for production and effects, MP3 is the delivery format. They don't cross well.

Koz

Custom installs are pretty much a nightmare to fix -- particularly from nine time zones away.

Koz

I'm tickled if the existing one keeps working.
Koz

You do need to perform the defragmentation. Windows splits files up into fragments to fit the data into all the nooks and crannys on the hard drive. Space on the drive is only clean and clear for about the first week, after that, it's all scrambled. The more scramble, the slower the drive is. Defrag...

Oh, right. The one Audacity cleans out at the end.

Koz

I suspect what you really want is to do those tricks to a single clip buried in a much larger show or timeline. No, I don't think there are any automated tools to do that.

Koz

Edit > Move Cursor > To Clip End -- That's either the END key, or fn + Right Arrow on a MacBook. Edit > Move Cursor > To Clip Start -- HOME, or fn + Left Arrow on a MacBook. Edit > Select > Cursor to Clip End -- Shift + J Edit > Select > Clip Start to Cursor -- Shift + K Koz

I don't mean to suggest it wouldn't work. It probably will. But nobody I know has ever accused a PC sound card of high quality audio -- and it's not a distortion problem. The electrical atmosphere inside a PC is poison to a high gain sound card. Ever try to run a radio, either FM or AM next to a com...

<<<the old 1.2 version is now virtually obsolete.>>>

And on some computers, actually obsolete.

Koz

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