Audacity Forum

The most common cause for Audacity crashing is if there are problems with the sound card drivers. Windows 10 is particularly fussy about having the correct drivers. There's a page in the manual about updating the sound card drivers: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers Not...

Unfortunately a problem was discovered in the beta version so it has been temporarily removed. However, a new release candidate is due to be announced very soon.

Although that PPA says "Audacity Team", it is nothing to do with us. The maintainers of that PPA clearly have a problem with their build system, Contact details for the maintainers can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~audacity-team

Open "Help menu > Audio Device Info", and when the info opens, click the "Save" button.
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Noise gates can be useful for this type of thing in live situations, but I'd generally avoid using a gate for voice recording. Yes the noise would be present during speaking, and then cut out in the gaps, which can sound quite unnerving (but not usually a problem in live situations as there's likely...

I'll mark this as solved. For information: "sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove" will remove the application and configuration / data files of the package , and dependencies that apt thinks are no longer required. The "purge" option does not remove user files created by the applicat...

What's the error message?

Topic locked as it is now only attracting spam posts.

You could try viewing the recording in Spectrogram View (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spectrogram_view.html) and then take a screenshot of the track (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/help_menu.html#Screenshot_Tools...). Adjust the Spectrogram setting to make it look pretty (manual.audacityte...

Split stereo to mono, and then delete the silent track (click on the [X] in the top left corner of the silent track)