Audacity Forum

Audacity does not keep copies of the file you create. The CD-burning program could possibly retain a copy of the ISO image . But anything could have used-up that memory space, e.g. a Windows update. If you want to securely-delete data, a good free program is CCleaner ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Titanic wrote:... what about the wind sound? or that low droning?

Sounds like gasoline-powered lawnmower with reverb added.

The Light Theme is currently the default ... So that ship has sailed then. I would have voted for Classic theme as default. In light-theme the increase in screen-brightness when selecting audio is eye-watering, particularly when viewed full-screen ... selecting audio in light theme is like having a...

The "light theme" has even infected the manual , e.g. ...
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/auda ... n.html#all

Manual is not too clear on how to cut songs from different tracks and paste into one new track. Copy & Paste , just like a word-processor. Select the audio you want to copy, press "Ctrl"+"C" to copy it. Then move the cursor to the track where you want to the copy to go, pres...

... The audio is an MP3. If I want save my changes, should I export it as MP3? If so, what export settings should I use? MP3 is a lossy format : there is accumulative damage by repeatedly using MP3. If you must make an MP3 of an MP3 use the highest quality settings to minimize the loss. Loss-less f...

increase the volume and clarity of muted conversations... There is a phenomenon called "Rorschach Audio", (like the ink blots ), where noise is misinterpreted as words. Digitally-processing the Audio, (e.g. applying noise-reduction), increases the odds of that happening, e.g. Processing t...

... I installed Audacity and used it.... However, the Windows10 "Uninstall a program" function in the Control Panel does not "see" Audacity in the list of programs from which to choose. If you downloaded the Audacity zip file, (~11Mb), rather than the installer (~19Mb), you can ...

I need to produce 20 recordings of the same spoken word. Each needs to have <=500ms leading and trailing silence. If you need 20 separate audio files, label the individual sections, and use export multiple to create the individual files. [ If you need true flat-line silence, a noise-gate will squel...

... what if we could have a tone generator as the one we have allready in audacity, but that we could also specify the tones pitch in midi numbres? is there allready something like that out there? There's a " harmonic noise " plugin for Audacity, where you specify midi notes ... Harmonic ...