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Gale Andrews wrote:I thought that fix had been deferred.

Looks like you're right. I recall that Paul was working on this a couple of months ago and there being long discussions about it, but it seems that nothing was committed.

-perhaps generally smaller project data folder overall in my case because parts of some tracks are empty, Empty space in a track has no data (size zero). When empty space is rendered as silence, samples with zero amplitude are generated in place of the empty space. "Silence" (zero amplitu...

You've not given enough detail. Have you taken into account dependencies (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_projects.html#dependencies) and UNDO history? Do the tracks have the same sample rate and sample format? The UNDO history is cleared when the project is closed or removed via the &qu...

If you have a lot of these to do, you could modify the "Silence Finder" effect so that it adds random text automatically rather than having to manually enter random names. Let me know if you need to do this. If you want to do this, here's a Nyquist function that creates unique random numb...

The simplest solution given that you have labels, would be: (save the current project first so that you have a backup) 1) add one more label at the start, then put random text / numbers into the labels. Just ensure that the text is different in every label. 2) In "Edit > Preferences > Import/Ex...

The tempo change sounds like what it should sound like. And when you think about it, it might be exactly what youtube does when it slows down or speeds up videos. When YouTube increases the speed of the sound, it does so by removing small sections from the audio - the audio equivalent of dropping f...

A silly thing that occurred to me was that the pressure of the headphones to my head increases the bass response, so I could get a lighter sound by easing the tension band on the headphones. The tension really ...I mean REALLY ...makes a difference. That's the solution that I'd go for, and you're r...

billchilds wrote:my voice is sped up by 5-10%;

That sounds about right to be a sample rate mismatch somewhere (44.1 kHz vs 48 kHz).
Check in the Mac "Audio and MIDI" setup that you are using the same sample rate throughout.

i use OS X 10.11.6 and audacity 2.1.0 That's an old version of Audacity. The current version is 2.1.2. The current version is always available via this page: http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ had to record all 14 channels of my firewire mixer to record the master 13-14..weird audacity..? Au...

Running out of disk space is likely to be fatal for the project. (the next version of Audacity, due for release soon, has some additional measures to protect the project data in the event of the disk becoming full). Audacity does not record as one large file, but as a series of small data blocks (&q...