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February 20th, 2018: Audacity 2.2.2 Released We are very pleased to announce the release of Audacity version 2.2.2, which you can download via the Audacity website . Audacity 2.2.2 replaces all previous versions. Headline new features: Easier zooming in and out with mousewheel, new Zoom Toggle comm...

A bug has been discovered in Audacity 2.2.1 which can cause data loss if you overwrite the project using "Save Project As..." (rather than the normal ""Save Project...") The bug has now been fixed. It is highly recommended that all users update as soon as possible. Audacity ...

If you are updating a previous version 2.x, you should be able to just install over the top of the previous version, though that may give you a double entry in the Windows Control Panel "Software" section. My recommendation would be to uninstall the old version first. If you are upgrading ...

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (Transport menu)

There's a load more handy features for version 4 plug-ins documented here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... erty_Lists

You need to be careful about working with long selections. Bail out before processing rather than processing and then warning. When I tested this with an hour of audio, AI got the warning, but then Audacity appeared to freeze for quite a long time. If you are using a recent version of Audacity (reco...

EricMC wrote:I would like to upvote the option of a lossless compression, please.

Vote added.

If you look around (example: Amazon) you can find SPL meters from under $20, but don't expect a cheap one to be very accurate, or be able to measure low level sound.

For a "Class 1" calibrated SPL meter, you could be paying well over $3000.

Audacity has "Label tracks", which are very versatile when used imaginatively: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html

Select the option: "Treat missing audio file as silence (this session only)" Then click the "OK" button. That will open the project and (temporarily) replace the missing data with silence of equal length (likely to be a few seconds). Save the project with a new, unique name to yo...