Audacity Forum

Audacity has Timed Record. Transport > Recording > Timer Record... That will let you set unambiguous start and stop times. Depending on content is fraught with problems as you found. Cassette tapes are noisy and there has to be a hole in the presentation as the tape reverses. Audacity is likely to s...

if I knew what the original compression involved. Ding! That's the problem with free-form de-compressing. Unless you were a party to the process at the beginning, like Dolby, you have no idea what the original software did, and no good way to find out. You can create some really cartoony results by...

That's not the problem. If you increase the volume of a 16-bit file so it overloads, that is, the waveforms go over 0dB, that's the end of the world. The performance is permanently damaged. Audacity uses 32-Floating internally because it doesn't overload. You can apply whatever filters, effects, or ...

Bluetooth devices are not plain headphones or speakers. They're special wireless devices. Go into Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Output and see what playback devices are listed. Do that while your earbuds are connected and working. I bet there are more devices posted than you thou...

Audacity can only record 1 source at a time Correct. This is from the heritage of computers only having one stereo record and one stereo playback, full stop. If you need more than that, or you want to mix, or manage them, it's extra software, drivers, managers, etc. There is a program called VoiceM...

Pay attention to the export dialog and it will tell you where it put them. Screen Shot 2021-05-04 at 9.24.11 AM.png To avoid confusion and missing files, I generally do everything through the desktop rather than waiting for an application to tell me where everything is. I clean up when I do system b...

I'm trying to create a silent subliminal Some problems with that. Which one? There's at least three different formulations that I know of and there could be more. that can be attached to any music. And that's the other problem. Subliminals are not Bulldozer/Howitzers. They're delicate butterfly win...

forced to close and reopen Audacity due to some bugs. I'm afraid that Audacity will not offer me to "recover old projects" Which Audacity are you using? Audacity doesn't have that many bugs. Do you have to Recover Projects very often? Do you restart your Mac when it has a problem like thi...

Command+S will save the project without the Mac menu bar. Does that work?

Koz

The most common problem is plugging in an interface while Audacity is running. Audacity naturally checks for new connections when it starts. If you do it out of order, the interface will be invisible. You can make Audacity check later with Transport > Rescan... There is a diagnostic trick, too. Make...