Audacity Forum

Here's a post from another forum member. It's been processed to be OK for audiobook submission. While it is good to get your feet wet in general editing and management, it's also good to have a goal. There's the obvious benefit that we can "steer" you to tools and processing you're going t...

Which three-digit Audacity are you using? I'm using 2.2.2.


Koz

Did the exported WAV and the exported MP3 sound the same? I mean as each other, not compared to the Project.

Koz

MP3 is a "lossy compressed format" My Spidey Sense is telling me there's something else going on. MP3 compression doesn't make a song get noisier. If anything it has the opposite effect. Noise tends to vanish as irrelevant to the enjoyment of the performance. How are you listening to the ...

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Koz

I uninstalled it and reinstalled. The Windows installer has a place to click so it resets Audacity settings and preferences. If you didn't click that, then possibly damaged settings stay around no matter how many times you reinstall. Saved my recording as an .aup file in the same folder as always. ...

I don't think I ever watched peoples mouths so much

That's the curse, isn't it? I can't watch bad editing on YouTube. It makes my teeth hurt.

Koz

. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html an actual room that is built for recording voiceover, and I start recording, I notice the sound waves are completely flat That's misleading. The blue waves are in percent, not dB. They run out of poop (technical term) at about -30dB an...

That's Overdubbing. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html You can commonly get into trouble two different ways. 1. Edit > Preferences > Recording > [_] Playthrough (de-select) Edit > Preferences > Recording > [X] Always record a new track (select). 2. Whate...

When FFmpeg is installed, using Audacity 2.2.2, the file may be imported by doing the following: 1) "File menu > Import > Audio" 2) Select "FFmpeg compatible files" as the file type filter 3) Select the file and click OK. So the construction (header) information is freaking out ...