Audacity Forum

If you are using a recent version of Audacity, unless something has damaged or erased the data, Audacity can usually recover the project. As you say that Audacity is frozen I don't think there are any options better than forcing Audacity to quit (to open the Windows Task Manager, Alt + Ctrl + Del, t...

Probably easier to use than the Envelope tool is the "Adjustable Fade" effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/adjustable_fade.html You may want to then tweak the result with the Envelope tool: reverse-fade.gif Note that absolute silence cannot be amplified (no matter how much it is amp...

AudioIO.cpp:(.text+0x174): undefined reference to `PaUtil_GetTime' You will need to specify the local library for portaudio because there's a fix in it that is not yet gone upstream. This is the configure command that I usually use (on Debian / Ubuntu): Debug build: ../configure --with-lib-preferen...

I can't see the cause of the error in the extracts that you have posted, but my guess would be missing dependencies. Check carefully through the config log for errors and warnings. There may be something here: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Linux In particular, ensure that libvamp ...

At present there are nightly builds for macOS https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-Mac-Nightlies.html
Hopefully there will be nightly builds for Windows in the future, and some AppImage builds for Linux (https://github.com/probonopd/audacity/releases)

I don't know how to make a video capture on a Mac, so this is on Linux, but on Mac it works in exactly the same way:
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In Audacity. "Help menu > Check for Updates". Updates are also announced on social media: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AudacityTeamOfficial/ twitter: https://twitter.com/getaudacity G+ https://plus.google.com/+audacity and the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/ and here ...

Plug-ins that are named with ".ny" as the file extension, are "Nyquist" plug-ins. These plug-ins are unique to Audacity, and are simple "plain text" files that contain computer code written in a computer language called "Nyquist". Instructions for installing N...

Think of Audacity as a kitchen, and sound as food. Q. "Is it possible to make this dish in this kitchen?" A. "Yes, of course it is possible. Do you know the recipe?" I don't know the recipe, or what exactly "decaying tape effect" is, but I'm sure it's possible. Perhaps ...

keithj7 wrote:I can record guitar through the set up

keithj7 wrote:but it does not record in Audacity

That seems to be a contradiction. What am I missing?