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Ironically, we still get complaints from people that want to be able to just overwrite old work with no warnings at all, but the developer's consider that to be too dangerous and won't implement it.

Pretty standard behavior most users expect, I'm surprised it is not in Audacity yet. We used to do that, but we had a lot of complaints about it, so now we just warn users that they are about to overwrite the file and they have to confirm that they wish to do so. Putting power in the hands of the p...

CD medium uses 16-bit native files Standard audio CDs don't use "files", they just have a long stream of data, plus a "table of contents" that tells the player where to start and stop for each "track". The data is 16-bit PCM, as is a 16-bit WAV file (so CD data is very...

As described here: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Isochronic_modulator Isomod is a variable tremolo effect. It modulates the amplitude of the selected audio. A tremolo effect causes the amplitude (loudness) to rapidly move up and down. When isomod is applied to a 440 Hz s...

"Plot Spectrum" will show you the frequency composition of the selected audio: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/plot_spectrum.html

but what is the *quickest* way Make a podcast about a popular subject, put it on YouTube and any other free hosting that you can find, and leave the comments open. Join some specialist podcasting forums (there are a few big ones), and if allowed in their rules, tell them about your podcast and ask ...

Make sure ‘full keyboard access’ is on. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and select the ‘All controls’ radio button. Or press Ctrl+F7 to toggle that setting.

In recent versions of Audacity, to record to a new track you must either:

• Hold down the Shift key and click the record button
• Hold down the shift key and press "R"
• Transport menu > Recording > Record to new track

This is not really an Audacity problem. The first thing I'd try is doing a full system shut-down and reboot. Did it ever work? If it did, then you could try rolling back to a restore point from before it broke. If it never worked, or if you don't have any restore points, try searching Google for &qu...

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:50 pm

Because it could be visually distracting while I'm doing other stuff - like, say, building a Macro

In which case you could click the meter to turn it off.
How often do you build macros during a recording session?