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I installed it via the terminal with the sudo command "install audacity" Looking back to your first post, you said: "by putting the instruction - sudo apt-get install audacity in the Lubuntu terminal." I assume that your original post is correct rather than the later post. Pleas...

There was experimental theme support in a couple of the very old beta versions some years ago. The code still exists in Audacity but is not currently used as the code is incomplete and possibly buggy, One of the senior developers is interested in reviving theme support, but not until after Audacity ...

In my opinion, the best teacher is "experience" (coupled with reading widely about the subject).

The current version of Audacity is backward compatible with previous versions of Audacity. In other words, old projects may be opened with newer versions of Audacity. I installed it via the terminal with the sudo command "install audacity" Did you build Audacity from the source code first?...

Leave the checkbox "Allow clipping" not selected (disabled) and use the default setting when applying the amplify effect. By default the effect automatically amplifies as much as possible without clipping.

You've amplified the audio too much which has caused some of the peaks to be clipped off. This is a picture of a close-up of part of your file (I zoomed in very close on part of the waveform). I have roughly drawn the parts of the waveform that have been clipped off, though what I have drawn is just...

ACX requires the file measure between -23dB and -18dB RMS and have -3dB peak values and a maximum -60dB noise floor. Your first post shows RMS = -27.6 dB, which is 4.6 dB below the minimum required by the ACX specification and 9.6 dB below the maximum. Your first post shows -6.9 dB peak, which is 3...

Stef wrote:I tried saving to an empty usb stick. Got the same error message.

What is the error message?

You need to apply a little bit of compression and then Normalize to a peak level of -3 dB (or slightly under -3 dB. "Under" -3 dB means "more negative", for example -3.5 is under -3).

how do I get that which is downloadable at http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown and also http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame to work with Audacity 2.1.2 Please see LAME and FFmpeg sections in the manual: http://manual.au...