Audacity Forum

Audacity doesn't notify you when there's an update.

Audacity is deliriously happy to get the update out the door.

The bug was a non-primary use of the Save-As command. If you Save-As and don't specify a different filename, it could trash the Project you're in.

Koz

My fuzzy impression reading these posts is Audacity Timer Record does not fail. Audacity itself fails and starts blowin' spit bubbles. Also this sounds vaguely familiar from school (sometime in the paleolithic). An event timer has to be supervisory and not a normal activity command. If it depends on...

Note if you do disconnect or unmount your microphone or interface and plug it back in, you should restart Audacity because it will forget what the microphone was. You can also Transport > Rescan...

Audacity automatically scans on start.

Koz

You can get symptoms like this if you have the wrong devices selected. If you like to record YouTube or other on-line content, there are system and Audacity settings that allow you to do that, but those settings do not work in Overdubbing. It's something of a time bomb. Recording "All the Stati...

Certainly, but you have to help us first. What is your three-number Audacity version?

What's the environment? Microphone, interface, computer type?

What's the goal? Are you reading for audiobooks? Musical overdubbing?

Koz

A note about Noise Reduction. Listen carefully to your reading before Noise Reduction and then after. Listen to the "S" sounds and make sure there are no ssss boosts or gritty sounds in the words. One symptom of too much noise reduction is voice that sounds like you're talking into a wine ...

both my original file and the 'acceptable' file you ran through Audiobook Mastering sound really noisy to me. I use Audiobook conformance as gold standard since their specifications are stiff and difficult to meet. Are you turning up the volume between paragraphs? You're always going to find noise ...

updated to the latest version of Audacity...did the update on 4.18.18. It's super handy if you called out the three-number Audacity version. It's completely possible to get the wrong or bad Audacity version even with the events and conditions in your post. The current Audacity version is 2.2.2 and ...

Also remember after you drop the file into the plugins folder, you have to Add Remove Plugins in Audacity. I know you know this, but to cover everything, ACX-Check shows up in Analyze, not Effects.

Koz

I have a folder called Installers-Keys-Settings . It had copies of all my installers and plugins. That's where I got Acx-check.ny from. I didn't download it cold. In addition to normal Time Machine backups, I make separate copies of /Users and /Installers-Keys-Settings folders. If my machine falls o...