Audacity Forum

Which version of Audacity?
What settings are you using?
That audio does not look like a "normal" audio recording. What is it?
Why are you working in 16-bit?
What's wrong with your sound card?

kozikowski wrote:Which way and why?

It may indicate a much lower noise floor than the actual noise floor (it's a bug).

But why are they pushing back if my file says it passes acx check? The ACX Check plug-in is intended as a "guide", not a "gold standard". It is a relatively simple tool. The noise floor measurement makes lots of assumptions and so does not always give accurate measurements. I've...

I'm using:
gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)

You can have several versions of gcc installed at the same time. To get the version number of the currently configured version, enter this in a terminal window:

Sounds to me like a bad earth connection, which is most likely caused by a faulty / dirty connector, or a damaged microphone lead.

sheppertonsound wrote:I downloaded it from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

That's an old version.

The current version is 2.1.3 and is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

I'm under Ubuntu 16.04 32 bits, with GCC (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609 version and I wanted to install (compiling) Audacity 2.1.3, following your post https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=88943 with the special line in red. Those instructions are for building Aud...

It would appear that an alternative solution would be to build WxWidgets on Windows with wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8=1 so that UTF-8 encoding is used on all platforms. but on the other hand, perhaps not. Although that document seems to suggest that we can use wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8=1 on Windows, further reading...

I found an article in the official wxWidgets 3.0.2 documentation describing how wxString works: http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.2/overview_string.html#overview_string_internal Excellent. That clearly answers my question about why the UTF-16 encoding is happening. The bit that grabbed me was (emphasis...

The second sample sounds as if there is some sort of aggressive noise reduction applied to it.
That could be a Windows sound "Enhancement" effect. See here for more info: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... hancements