Audacity Forum

the ACX technical requirements.

That's the tests they do just to get you in the door. Voice volume, noise, etc. After you do that, you still have to pass Human Quality Control where they test for theatrical quality, voice distortion, etc. Those can't be easily automated.

Koz

It's old news. When the computer switches your stereo microphone adapter to mono, it "makes room" for a volume boost. When you sit in front of stereo (two) microphones, you produce two full-volume copies of your voice. If all you did was add them up and make mono, you would get double volu...

2. The folder is called _AUDACITY PROJECT FILES The way I understand it, this is a catch-all folder designed to house projects away from the sturm and drang of the rest of the computer. The problem is this folder is also collecting a spray of orphan au files, seemingly for no reason. That was my su...

they should open in Audacity and play for six seconds

At least two of them are graphics files and not sound, and they tend to cluster at the beginning. Pick files from the middle for test listening.

Koz

To check for duplications, I would have to search every project in the folder. You can use simple Windows search on one of the renegade files and see if you get two hits. You don't need to search for everything. One or two sets of duplications is enough. That could point to a system error. My initi...

Cost a lot of time. We could save even more time by not clipping the audio during recording. "Clip fixes" do not restore the original sound. They guess at what might have been there based on sounds before and after. This correction can work OK if you have one clip every hour or so, but if...

I've gotten stuck with a fuzzy similar problem by not using the "I-Beam" selection tool. Describe what actually happens. You have some audio on the timeline. You choose the selection tool and drag it across the blue waves. What happens from there? Do you get a selected segment like this? S...

How much stuff do you have running in addition to Audacity? If you look at the doc (bar at the bottom) how many applications have little lights or indicators under them? I used to regularly get a division manager out of trouble at work by closing the thousands of apps he had open. He used to quit ap...

Are they duplicates of the AU files in the last project you worked on?

Koz

When was the last time you ran your virus protection program in "stiff mode" where you let it run all night? If your machine is not connected to a network or the internet, you need not worry about that, but that's pretty unusual.

Koz