Audacity Forum

Clipping is one of the fatal mistakes. There are no good (or even marginal) software packages that can help.

Koz

Y'all are talking Apples and Oranges. The peak sound meter and the correction tools are in dB, but the blue waveforms are in percent. You can convert the waveforms to match the other tools by BlackDownArrowOnTheLeft > Waveform (dB). Your object in the capture stage is to get all the sound converted ...

The problem is not that the turntables are broken. If only. It's that they're unstable. Unstable digital systems are a very strange animal. Everyone assumes that digital systems either work or they don't. That's not true. You can get a USB bitstream with just the right amount of errors so the comput...

I don't think the application is actually closing and opening back up again. I think whatever error you have is causing a Windows screen redraw. Normally, it would redraw the screen with Audacity missing, but since the Audacity task doesn't close, it just flickers. Did you install Audacity as Admini...

Still here. You should end up with a file called... libmp3lame.dylib March 26, 708 kb. ...which is the UNIX executable file that Audacity uses to create MP3 files. And yes, I did have troubles decompressing that file on one of my machines. Do you have it so you can see the file extensions on your Ma...

You need to put the original filenames back. Audacity does not Save sound files. Audacity Saves Audio Production Environments. The files you see on top of the pile point to hundreds (or thousands) of other files that make up your show. Or used to point before you damaged them. You now have hundreds ...

You can use the magnifier tools to zoom into the segment of show that you want to delete. Then click and hold at the beginning of your sound and drag to the end. Let go and press Delete. I usually do this in two or more steps depending on how large the selections are. Delete a major part but not all...

<<<Am I right in thinking that this can not be done with Audacity?>>> That's correct. Audacity is a simple audio production tool. If you present a computer running Audacity with a 2-channel audio signal with one person on one side and the other person on the other, then Audacity will happily record ...

Echoes are one of the killers. An echo is the actor's voice arriving at the microphone twice, once direct and once late having been bounced from a wall. So you are asking the software to remove the actor's voice from itself. The expander (see above) and level keying software all talk a good line, bu...

Audacity has an undocumented feature that kills you when you're trying to diagnose a problem like this. It will seem to import or accept a damaged sound file and play it, but it won't do anything else. So the failure isn't Audacity Export, it's Audacity Import.

Koz