Audacity Forum

MP4 support is provided by "FFmpeg". See here for how to install FFmpeg for Audacity: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#winff

I like the points that you make about 1) Keeping high quality uncompressed versions of the recordings (this is something that we highly recommend for most use cases) 2) Linking to the audio files so that you can update the audio without having to modify the PP. Now that you have a taste for Open Sou...

Vocals and acoustic guitar If you are recording both at the same time, I'd recommend using two microphones (at least). The "classic" way to record acoustic guitar is with a cardioid (semi-directional) mic about 30 cm from the guitar, pointing at the 12th fret. The "classic" way ...

The "General Error" message is probably because the forum software was put into maintenance mode today for a major update. For the "Audio Device Info", if you click the "OK" button the info can be saved as a text file, then you can attach the text file to your post. Ple...

"Import Raw" is for importing "audio data", not for importing "text data". It IS possible to import a text file as "Raw", but the result will almost certainly be just noise as text data is not audio. It is possible to export sample values from an audio file as...

if every kind of plugin worked completely fine in previous version of Audacity It didn't. 64-bit VST plug-ins are not supported. VST3 plug-ins are not supported. VSTi plug-ins are not supported. Most plug-ins that have proprietary "protection" are not supported (this includes many of the ...

Import / export of WAV, AIFF, OGG, FLAC files are fully supported by Audacity without any plug-ins / add-ons.
Import of MP3 files is supported without plug-ins or add-ons.
Export of MP3 files requires LAME to be installed.

What are you trying to do?
What happens when you try to export a WAV file?

Built-in sound card are notorious for bad sound quality (even on many expensive computers). The sound quality on my i7 laptop is dreadful. USB microphones can provide cost effective improvements, but are still quite limited - a frequent complaint being that they are too quiet unless you are yelling ...

That is, if Ctrl+M was only pressed "between" the songs in the set, the Export Multiple function would include the opening song as the first track in the set. Is this true, and if so, where does one find the setting? It's in the " Export Multiple " dialog. Look for the option &q...

steve wrote:I'm unsure whether it should apply to all formats

From this document it appears that ascii is required for Dolby AC3: https://www.dolby.com/us/en/technologie ... tadata.pdf