Audacity Forum

How sure are you that it's a flac file? Did you open it up in QuickTime Player and Apple-I it to get the INFO panel? Typically, Audacity does that when it encounters a damaged file. Does Audacity open up other files and manage them? Can you open this short piano solo up and convert it? http://www.ko...

There is a scroll bar underneath the waveforms. Also, you can view the whole show at once with Apple-F and zoom into a selection with Apple-E. Apple-3 zooms out slightly. With those tools available, I almost never need to use the scroll bar. I had to go look to remember where it was. You can change ...

<<<Sometimes it's best to permit the user to make the decisions than to try to automate the process.>>> Actually, that's practically never true. See: Mac OS-X. You're standing waaaaay too close to the problem. Take about fourteen steps backward and gaze on the multiple versions of Audacity being sup...

I set Chris's Compressor for a compression number of 0.8 instead of the default 0.5 and it mimics exactly the effect of the local Los Angeles NPR FM station broadcast compressors. Ever wonder why you never have to constantly adjust the volume during the show when you're listening to the radio in the...

This isn't an Audacity problem. Audacity will not apply Effects during live capture. It's a frequently asked-for feature.

Koz

That model number will not google. Web site? One of the "features" of many sound cards is to automatically set level during recording. 0.5 (-6dB) is not a bad level to do that. The sound card is going to have drivers and control software. See if they let you turn "Auto" off with ...

USB Hubs have never worked right with live production. Any equipment in the pathway that has to stop and think about it every so often is deadly to real-time production.

Koz

<<<Weird.>>>

Did any of this things I said work?

Koz

Without question...

http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/

It shows up in the effects lists as "Compress Dynamics." He designed it to do precisely what you want to do.

Koz

<<<I have fixed it by going back to 1.3.7.>>>

That's not good news, is it? I mean it's good for you....

Koz