Audacity Forum

No, Audacity can't detect "upstream" dropouts, only "downstream".

I don't think the peaks should be full frame? No, normally there should be mostly space around the waveform with just a few peaks getting close to the top/bottom. The " loudness war " has tended to push more of the waveform close to 0 dB, but I'd guess that from about 50 seconds onward, t...

My problem is that when I export the project as an mp3 it seems to sound different on various platforms. For example on a laptop, the hosting site or even really quiet on a mobile phone. Sometimes it can even sound a little 'tinny'. I'm not sure that we can do anything about that. I can play music ...

As a side note, it's definitely encountering a buffer underrun when using pulseaudio. There are hundreds of lines stating "ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred". Yes, it's usually possible to fix that by tweaking the buffer settings, priorities, sample rates,... but muc...

Try changing the recording and playback devices in the device toolbar to the "hw" options that correspond with your sound card. Note that this will tell Audacity to use the ALSA drivers directly (bypassing other sound system "layers"), which means that Audacity will require exclu...

As is common practice for "signal" levels, Audacity uses dB relative to "full scale" (full track height / full scale on the meters / maximum integer sample value). To get positive dB values, pick a lower reference level. For example, the minimum non-zero level for 16-bit audio is...

I see that DVDdoug has given the short version of the instructions. If that's not enough, here's the detailed "long" version. I am rapidly going off the idea of recording them now lol Well let's give it a go anyway ;) 1) Plug the USB connection from the turntable into your computer. 2) Tur...

agua wrote:Can you add my vote to this preference feature. It would be great and much more secure to be able to save or export an audio file to the directory it came from at open or import time rather than to the last export directory used.

Certainly can.
Done.

There have be a lot of changes since 2.0.5.
The change log up to version 2.2.1 can be viewed here:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/bl ... NGELOG.txt
and the changes since 2.2.1 here:
https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.2.2

I'm not following your description.
Could you give a step by step account of what currently happens, and a step by step of what you would like to happen.