Audacity Forum

There's an About, which tells me I'm using Audacity 2.3.2 That surprised me. Is that from Panda Jim's PPA? (not important, just interested). Re. Audio device info and the device toolbar settings: "default" is the system default sound system, which on Ubuntu (and most other modern Desktop ...

The "Gradient" display option already has this feature.

You could modify "Silence Finder" to put numbers in the labels rather than just an "S".
Do you have any experience at all of any kind of programming?

I've set the python and have run the pipeclient.py, and it works. At least the 'Q' works. Good start :) Where can I see how to run Audacity commands? I tried to type 'Left at playback position' and got an error. In the "Scripting Reference" section of the manual: https://manual.audacityte...

1) Ensure that the external mic is enabled before you launch Audacity. If you enable it after, you will need to tell Audacity to "Rescan audio devices" (in the "Transport" menu).

2) Ensure that the external mic is selected as the recording device in the device toolbar.

As for my device toolbar, it's set to ALSA, microphone icon, "default: Line: 0", "1 (Mono) Recording Channel", volume icon, and default. I don't even have any other options instead of ALSA, which seems a little odd since I think I use PulseAudio for everything, PulseAudio uses A...

Have you said what you're trying to do (specifically)?
What are your settings in the device toolbar?

Standard WAV files don't support labels.
OGG files can have "chapter" tags (https://wiki.xiph.org/Chapter_Extension), but these are not supported by Audacity.

"Pan" one track left and the other track right.
You can then either "Mix and Render", or just "Export".

Big difference between scripting with Nyquist and scripting with Python: Nyquist is built into Audacity and runs "inside" Audacity. Python runs "outside" of Audacity and sends / receives messages via "mod-script-pipe". To run a Nyquist script, you can either: Run the sc...