Audacity Forum

Audacity only supports recording from one audio device at a time. If you need to record more than 2 channels, you need an audio device that supports more than 2 channels, AND, supports more than 2 channels with standard Windows drivers (Audacity cannot ship with ASIO support due to licensing restric...

I'm not familiar with those programs, but perhaps it indicates different ID3 versions?

Audacity's metadata tagging is pretty basic. If tags are particularly important for your use case, it's better to use a specialist tagging program.

You can select a track for an effect to be applied to, by clicking on the track icon in the Mixer Board. By default the track icon is the Audacity logo, unless the track name matches one of the defined instrument names (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/mixer_board.html) I doubt there is any ...

It could be this: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=100117

For future reference, I'd recommend recording at a sample rate of 44100 Hz. ACX require the sample rate to be 44100 Hz, so if you record in this format you avoid an unnecessary conversion step. Also, your initial recording level is a little low. Aim for around - 6dB. (Currently your recording level ...

Cyberlith wrote: ↑

Wed May 29, 2019 2:55 pm

When I "export as mp3" the Year and Comment sections end up looking like this:

2018//2018
commenttext//commenttext

Where do you see that?

I'm using version 2.0.5 and Windows 10. That's an ancient version of Audacity. You should update to the current 2.3.2 version: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ I have a weekly (pre-recorded) radio show and want to record the music track and microphone track separately so I can tidy th...

Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity").

Unless you are using Windows XP, you should upgrade Audacity to the current version (2.3.2) https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ The instructions below are for Audacity 2.3.2. The default "sample format" in Audacity is 32-bit float. Don't change that - leave it as 32-bit float. I...

This is the relevant Windows "Sound" control panel. The default input (red arrow) displays with a white tick in a green blob. When the input is working, you should see the associated meter (green arrows) responding to the input sound / signal.