Audacity Forum

Build instructions may be found in the "INSTALL" file in the root of the source code (also available on-line: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/INSTALL) There are step-by-step instructions for building an older version (2.2.0) on Ubuntu, which may be helpful, though the inst...

appleseed wrote:it kept saying that it would be
mixed down to two separate stereos or something like that

What exactly did it say?

Which download exactly are you using? Is it: vamp-aubio-plugins-0.5.1-win32.zip

Just wondering if there is a way to compare 2 plot spectrums? You can export the data from Plot Spectrum (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/plot_spectrum.html) Export creates a plain text file with a list of "frequency (Hz) / level (dB)" pairs. For example, this is a sample of pink ...

Can the sound quality be improved as I digitize the recordings? Short answer: Not with Audacity. Longer answer: Audacity provides editing / processing of audio from audio files or from audio recordings. Audacity does not provide real-time processing while recording. You have to record first, and th...

The old "Classic" look of Audacity is available as a theme option. See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/themes.html
(you may find the dark theme even easier on the eye than the classic theme)

The names are partially random, so there is no way to know from the file names, which order they should go in. However, if it is an unedited recording, then the files creation / modification times will be in the correct order. Depending on the resolution of the system timer. it may not be possible t...

SDL wrote:am currently trying to digitize old radio shows that I recorded online via a 56k phone line MANY years ago

What format are these recordings? Are they cassettes? MP3? WAV files? Wax cylinders?

I was wrong. Ffprobe does show one stream but it is stereo. Thank you for your response. Will close this thread as soon as I figure out how. If you're happy that your query is resolved, then I can close it for you (though usually we don't bother locking old topics unless there is some reason why it...

rstuff wrote:It opens as stereo even when Audacity is set for mono.

The setting in Audacity for the number of channels only affects recording. When importing audio files, they will open as mono or stereo (or multi-channel) according to the number of channels in the file, irrespective of the recording setting.