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kozikowski wrote:What does "convert them into 432" mean?

He means that he dropped the pitch by -0.32 semitones in the belief that doing so would make the music more "spiritual".
(it doesn't - it's just mumbo jumbo created by the American political extremist Lyndon LaRouche)

After some browsing i noticed that .wav files are better than mp3 due to lossless compression. To clarify that point: MP3 encoding reduces the sound quality because the encoding applied "lossy compression". Lossy compression is a means of reducing the file size by discarding some of the '...

Would be handy to have way to customise the colors in the spectral view. I've added your 'vote' for this feature. This does not mean that the feature will be added any time soon as development is dependent on someone with the necessary interest and skills volunteering to develop it, but 'votes' hel...

To get an exact setting, double click on the slider. That will open a dialog box where you can type the required value (in this case "0"), then click the "OK" button.
More info here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tran ... olbar.html

cuteluluc wrote:TASCAM US-366 only has two Mode: Multi-track / Stereo Mix and it can't disable.

So that's a setting on the TASCAM US-366 ?

steve wrote: OK, that's a feature request that I can log, for greyscale spectrograms to have a range from black to white rather than black to grey.

Done.

I don't like the logarithmic volume scale in Audacity You need to be specific. Which logarithmic scale? Audacity is an audio application, so not surprisingly there are logarithmic scales all over the place. I can't distinguish between quiet and usual Again, please be specific or we won't know what ...

For voice only podcast, it is generally recommended to use mono, 96 kbps, CBR, MP3. Encoding should be the final step in the production - use WAV format whenever possible during the production stages, then export as MP3 as the final step (plus a WAV format backup copy).

peteb1414 wrote:Is there anyway to setup Sound Activated Recording to save the file when silence is detected, and start a new file?

No there isn't.

Transport menu > Rescan audio devices
or restart Audacity.