Audacity Forum

When dealing with audio signals, the "amplitude" (how big the waveform is vertically), is usually measured in dB relative to "full scale" (sometimes written as "dBFS"). "Full Scale" is the height of an audio track (marked on the scale on the left end of the tr...

CLICK on the part of the audio track I want to split by leaving a vertical marker, then go to EDIT slide down to CLIP BOUNDARIES then move right over to SPLIT When you do that, do you see a "split" (dark vertical line) appear on the track? To be able to slide a clip left / right, there ha...

Which version of Audacity are you using? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity")

Go to "Help menu > Diagnostics > Audio Device Info", and when the info appears, save it somewhere convenient. Then attach the saved file to your reply (see here for how to attach files to a forum post: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936)

If I click on the label to bring up the selection associated with the label, the focus is placed in the edit field for the label, so I end up inserting a space into the label text, and of course, playback doesn't start. Press "Enter", then "Space" (or "Enter" then &quo...

If you already have a track in Audacity and then start recording, Audacity will record into that track. If that track is mono, then the recording will be mono regardless of the number of channels selected in the device toolbar . If you record into an empty project (no tracks) and start recording, a ...

LAME is required to export MP3. See here for more information: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... .html#lame

The low pass and high pass filters are Butterworth filters. The notch filter is second-order IIR ( biquad ) notch filter. Nyquist plug-ins are text files which have a ".ny" file name extension (rather than ".txt"). They can be opened and viewed in a plain text editor (such as Not...

This is due to Apple "helping" you.
Nyquist plug-ins are written as plain text, so you can download it as a .txt file, then rename it and replace the ".txt" with ".ny" (just be careful that it does not end up with ".ny.ny").

If libflac is updated, it will be updated to the latest stable release version (1.3.2).