Audacity Forum

speaco wrote:I used the same input volume for both tracks.

Same input volume as heard by listening or same input volume position of knob/slider? If the latter that is no guarantee that the two signals will be at the same volume level as heard when listening.

If you did your edit totally visually (i.e. never played the WAV during the edit), it is possible that you had inadvertently raised the gain on the track. The waveform does not change to reflect the new gain level. This is, in my opinion, a serious weakness of Audacity. It makes it possible to produ...

Check your computer hardware carefully. My desktop system has a motherboard that includes sound (i.e. has jack sockets for mic, line in and line out) and also a separate sound card (with the same jack sockets). If yours is the same, you might have plugged the cable into the blue port on the motherbo...

Thinking back to my days of using tape cassettes, one problem I encountered was warped cassette shells. The tape in my player always seemed to wind slightly off centre. After many plays it would eventually start to rub on the side of the warped casing and finally would jam completely when played in ...

I think you must have saved your Audacity project and what you are looking at are the audio files that Audacity uses internally. You should also have a file that ends .aup (or that is identified in Windows Explorer as an Audacity Project file). Open this file with Audacity (launch Audacity and then ...

32-bit float is a shorthand way of saying that Audacity performs all its mathematical calculations using 32-bits (binary digits - 0s and 1s) floating point arithmetic (numbers with a decimal point and digits after the decimal point) rather than 16-bit integer arithmetic (whole numbers only -no fract...

Koz,
I think you overlooked one, possibly vital, point. Herb used the phrases "We are using..." "We discovered...". Does that mean this is a multi-user system with a shared drive or folder that two or more users can write into? If so, do these Audacity project files exist in that shared space?

I find using the cursor or keyboard to select content to be a pain and imprecise. I cannot answer your question about the Start/End times; but I would offer the following observation about "imprecise". If you click at the approximate point in the waveform and then use the Zoom In tool to "magnify" ...

When I reopen the Audacity project I don't see the volume sliders in the same position as when I mixed. If by volume sliders you mean the Gain slider in the Track Details panel at the left of each track - you should see them where you left them. I'm running Audacity v2.0.0 under Windows 7 and I do ...

When you "exported multiple", Audacity should have created at least one (and probably several) "normal" audio files (MP3s or WAVs or whatever file type you specified). It is these files that you need find and open in your media player software. The .aup file is Audacity's project file. It contains n...