Audacity Forum

Please do the following:

1) Look in "Help > About Audacity" and tell me which version of Audacity you have.
2) Press Ctrl+A (select all), then Ctrl+F (Zoom to fit), then Ctrl+Shift+F (Fit vertically), then take a screen shot and post it.

kayreme wrote: Here's an example of my issue:

What's wrong with that?

kayreme wrote:I spam clicked while holding crazy amounts of keys, scrolls the bar

I doubt that will help. Did you try clicking the << Rewind button?

Which version of Audacity are you using? (Look in "Help > About Audacity")

cronie wrote:what is the best way to convert all of my music to another format

Perhaps Windows Media Player?

cronie wrote:And what format is the best (lossless) to convert to?

WAV.

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Can you recommend a better quality format that still doesn't take up too much storage space? OGG files provide about the same (or slightly better) size / quality trade-off without changing the peak amplitude. (OGG also keeps the length the same whereas MP3 adds a tiny bit of padding to the start). ...

MP3 is a "lossy compression" format. It is not exact. Encoding to MP3 is a trade-off between file size and sound quality, which is in part accomplished by discarding some of the audio data, so there is always some loss of sound quality each time the data is encoded. An MP3 file is never id...

The reference level is a 0 dBFS sine tone. Example: Generate a tone from the "Generate menu > Tone" and set the "Waveform" to "Sine" and the amplitude to 1. This will produce a sine tone that has an amplitude the full height of the track (0 dBFS ). Select the track and ...

I think the problem is due to a Chinese folder name. For example, if the Audacity folder is in a folder of English name, there will be no problem, but if the Audacity folder is in a folder of Chinese name, the nyquist effects don't work. That makes sense. "Nyquist" is a programming langua...

Topic moved to the Audio Processing part of the forum. If you are referring to "Plot Spectrum", the reference level is a 0 dBFS sine tone. If the amplitude of a frequency component is above the reference level its dB level is positive, if below the reference level its dB level will be nega...

craigtheairplaneman wrote:The Recording Devices allow "What You Hear/Loop/Stereo Mix."

Please post a screenshot of that.