Audacity Forum

Audacity may not find your audio device if another application has grabbed exclusive control of the device (Skype is notorious for grabbing exclusive control of the recording device). Try rebooting your computer, then check that there are no audio applications that have started up on boot (such as S...

There's no substituting what I'm asking for. That's part of the reason why I was more technical with the terms earlier - to be precise in desired function without the workarounds. but I don't see how your suggestion could work practically. How would you (or Audacity) know how much to amplify by, wi...

So basically bringing it back up after lowering it reduces its fidelity and raises the noise floor. So long as you are working in 32-bit float format (the default), that is not a problem. Assuming that the amount of amplification is less that +/- 100 dB, the theoretical loss is insignificant (much ...

Generally I close the tracks and drag in a new file rather than creating a new project, so I don't need to be constantly opening and closing Audacity. It's quicker to close the project: "File menu > Close" (Ctrl + W) This closes the current project, but does not quit Audacity (To shut dow...

Here are a couple of plug-ins to aid with severe noise / damage problems. They may be useful:
viewtopic.php?p=122958#p122958
viewtopic.php?p=164527#p164527

Does your Spitfish plug-in have a version number?
Perhaps there's an earlier version of Spitfish that works, and a later version that doesn't (?)

It's actually no different than using the Amplify effect to apply gain, except for the fact that it would apply to all the tracks simultaneously The Amplify effect is applied to all selected tracks. If you select all tracks ("Ctrl + A" on Windows / Linux) and then use the Amplify effect, ...

I used Audacity to generate a mp3 file from a record turntable with USB connection to desktop computer. The file when played on Windows Media Player, has no sound. When you recorded with Audacity, did you see a blue wiggly waveform in the recorded track? Did you try playing the recording before exp...

Audacity's native format is the "Audacity Project". This is not a single file. It is a folder containing a tree of sub-folders, containing dozens / hundreds / thousands of 1MB audio "blocks", plus there is a "project file" containing instructions that tell Audacity how ...

Typhoon859 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:27 pm

I mean for the audio which would actually be processed in the 32-bit floating space and exported.

I'm still not sure what you mean.
How does your suggestion differ from the Playback Volume Slider?
How does your suggestion differ from the Amplify / Normalize effects?