Audacity Forum

Thank you for the sample WAV files. I can now see what the problem is. In this screenshot, the upper track is your source file, the middle track is your recorded version, and the bottom track is the difference between the two which I have then amplified by 36 dB so as to make the difference visible....

Remember all the people who shipped carefully time-shifted clips to a finishing house and were surprised when Audacity didn't export each leading segment of "no data?" It is expected that Audacity would preserve each of those time values. This is the obverse of that. Yes, exactly that. An...

I thought we did away with destructive editing back in the Ye 'Olde days of RAZOR BLADES AND TAPE. Not at all. "Destructive" editing, or the more complimentary term "Sample Editing" is an essential tool in all modern sound studios. Many "real-time" DAW applications inc...

petermorin wrote: i did not make any special changes to it, other than to set it to record any audio coming out of the speakers on my laptop.

How exactly did you do that? Did you set it to record using "WASAPI loopback"?

kierenmetts wrote:By any chance in the world, does anyone know of anything that can be done to enhance this clip even a smidgeon?

Unfortunately, I think not. Sorry to be the bringer of bad news on your birthday, but it was a lovely thought from your brother.

Just to confirm, on Windows 10, FFmpeg 2.2.2 cannot read the file. The most recent nightly, ffmpeg-20170601, from the command line, can convert the file. The command I used, from the location of ffmpeg.exe ./ffmpeg.exe -i "input file" "output file" Where "input file" an...

kozikowski wrote: So it's been broken for years.

"a matter of debate"

How would you describe the "correct" / "desirable" behaviour?

Wouldn't Export Selected now work as expected if I drag-select the "real" track? Yes, that works. I couldn't help wondering why Magical Time was included in my exported show. Audacity export begins from the start of the audio. Whether the start of the audio is in "negative time"...

Radio stations are usually quite consistent with the level of their broadcasts. For commercial stations with adverts, the adverts tend to be the loudest part. I would recommend a maximum peak level of around -6 dB, which will give a waveform about half the track height. When the recording is complet...

"Call Recorder for Skype" by ecamm gets good reviews from what I see. They do a free trial version.
It's very difficult to get decent Skype recordings without specialist Skype recording software because of the way that Skype controls the sound system.