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lorenzo wrote:How to improve the Draw Tool in audacity 2.1.3, so I can draw without zoom to see each samples?

The Draw tool is written in C++, so if you want to modify it you will need to learn a bit of C++ programming. Nyquist plug-ins do not support that type of interactive action.

Audacity does not support album art, but you can add album art to MP3s with MP3Tag http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

I've not seen that problem in kdevelop.

If you pause your recording, either with the Pause button or "P" on your keyboard, then you can simply click the Pause button again or press "P" again to un-pause. If you have "Stopped" the recording (Stop button or spacebar), then to resume recording on the same track,...

Audacity needs read / write access to its temp folder. By default this is a folder that Audacity creates in /var/tmp/ For example, if your user name is "vince", then the temp folder will be, by default "/var/tmp/audacity-vince" The location of the temp folder is set in "Edit...

On modern Macs, tweaking the "buffer size" in Recording Preferences (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_preferences.html) can make a huge difference. Often it is necessary to reduce the buffer size, sometimes to zero. Unfortunately it's difficult to predict the necessary buffer s...

HoodieDan wrote:I've gotten a portable copy of the software

Are you referring to the "Portable Apps" version, or are you using the official Audacity from the Audacity website.

How exactly are you "installing" Audacity?

Unfortunately I don't think you can on Mac. On Linux, Jack audio system reports "xruns" (buffer underrun / overrun). as does ASIO on Windows (though Audacity does not ship with ASIO support), but as far as I'm aware Core Audio doesn't. However, it should be possible to record reliably with...

pisig wrote:first track seems to be okay, but the 2nd, 3rd and so forth tracks are 1 note (or 1 octave?) lower

You seems to be uncertain whether it is "1 octave". Why is that?