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The checkbox with the text "Don't show this again at start up" of the Welcome window in dark themes (like Breeze Dark in KDE and Yaru Dark in Ubuntu 20.04) is still unreadable when it has no mouse focus. It looks like this for me on Xubuntu 20.04. welcome.png It's the user's choice which ...

doofer wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:49 am

have a signal with a varying pulse-width (which I want) on the +ve-going side of zero, and spikes (which I don't want) on the negative-going side of the waveform.

Apply this code using the Nyquist Prompt effect (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_prompt.html)

Heaven1337 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:00 am

There is the complete time with silence in the beginning.

There's now an option for this in the Audacity Preferences.
See "Ignore blank space at the beginning" here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/imp ... ences.html

I need to better understand this idea of ​​harmonious convolution, there is some material that can explain this more clearly, See here: http://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me#TOC-PaulStretch-extreme-sound-stretching-algorithm (Tip: Google is your friend. I found that link by searching fo...

Windows XP is no longer supported.

You could try an older version of Audacity from here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html

to be able create password protected audio recordings As far as I'm aware, "password protected audio files" don't exist. There is "DRM" audio (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management) I think it's highly unlikely that Audacity will ever support DRM as it usu...

Have you tried rebooting the computer? (Yes, even in the 21st century, rebooting can still fix a lot of problems).

I'm comparing the two screenshots. I see that the amplitude of the first track is higher in "After Compression". The start and end time of the first track looks to be the same in both screenshots. The start and end time of each clip looks to be the same. I don't see any gaps in "After...

If you can reproduce the problem, perhaps you could post a screenshot of the track before applying the compressor, and another after applying the compressor.

That's a bug. It has been fixed for the next Audacity version (3.0.1) which we hope to release next month.

In the meantime, the previous version (Audacity 2.4.2) is still available from here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html