Audacity Forum

Audacity is an audio editing program. Do you have an Audacity question?

Koz

You may have pressed the green "full screen" ball in the Audacity upper left. Put your cursor/pointer at the top of your screen and leave it there. The Mac control bar should appear and you can press the green ball again to shrink the window.

Koz

Do wired headphones work?

Koz

I'm with the wired headphones people. Wired headphones are safe, stable, and you can use them for troubleshooting and quality control. Throwing bluetooth into the mix scrambles the sound pathways (as you're finding) and introduces instabilities, poor reliability, and time constraints. Post back if y...

I recorded a piece of audio from a video where the audio is overly compressed. I wonder if you have a Dolby® track. It's hard to make a music track so compressed that it's hard to listen to using regular audio and music tools, but it's a snap in Dolby. Dolby tracks are surgically compressed and dyn...

Without knowing any more than that, I'd say Audacity was recording your computer microphone and not the formal data stream. Check what's listed in the little Audacity microphone (recording) window. Audacity records whatever is presented to it and doesn't apply effects, filters, or corrections. Also,...

There is one item that's handy to know. Audacity doesn't edit MP3, FLAC, or other compressed or processed sound files. It converts them to its own super high quality internal sound format for editing. That helps prevent effects, filter, and processing distortion. That means your (> 1GB) FLAC file is...

It's possible there are a number of other tools to do what you want. For example the mains hum filter and frying mosquito USB microphone errors. Those are careful surgical deletions and sometimes you can't tell they're running. Those are both "rescue" tools intended to turn an already reco...

Audacity is an audio editor. People get into trouble when they use it for other jobs. If it's a toss-up between strict scientific accuracy and sounding good, Audacity will almost always pop for sounding good.

Koz

have a setting higher then 48DB? Scientific application, or actual sound? We are warned that "brick wall" filters tend to not sound very good. That's one of the reasons the Audacity built-in ones don't go any higher than they do. Natural musical sounds usually have a base tone and a bunch...