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How are your headphones connected to the computer?
What is your default recording device?

The AlsaMixer manual is here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/alsamixer
It tells you how to turn on the mic.

And a description of a "DO" loop here: https://www.audacity-forum.de/download/ ... ef-093.htm

A good description of "LET" here: https://www.audacity-forum.de/download/ ... ef-148.htm

Here's a pretty print version: ;version 4 (setf *float-format* "%.2f") ;2 decimal places (let ((rms (rms *track* 4)) (highest 0)) (do ((val (snd-fetch rms)(snd-fetch rms))) ((not val) (linear-to-db highest)) (setf highest (max highest val))) (format nil "Highest RMS is ~a dB" hig...

P.S. And for the record, I just don't understand why the default behavior is "always add tracks at the end". I think it's because that's the way that Dominic Mazzoni wrote it 20 years ago, and there's been little demand to change it. now that I've discovered the beauty of Audacity's macro...

I thought I could use the macro system to simplify this, by making a macro that: Stores the current cursor position Makes a new track Restores the cursor to its stored position Moves the track to that position So is the aim of this to add a new, empty, mono track, immediately below the current track?

machineghost wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 27, 2019 5:00 pm

I'm using the "Move Track Here" plug-in that another user in this forum made for me.

I guess that was me. Do you have a link to the topic where I posted the plug-in, or could you post it here so that I can see what you have so far.

"Store Cursor Position" does work, but not in the way that you are thinking. The "cursor position" is the "time" position for the selection cursor. It does not store which track is selected. A typical way this might be used is to store the cursor position, do something,...

Create a Macro to set the colour (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html)
then assign a keyboard shortcut to run the Macro (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/key ... ences.html)