Audacity Forum

How can I set up to record just in mono tracks? Set the "number of channels" to "1 (mono)" in the device toolbar Note that if you are using a 2 channel sound card / audio device, the "mono" input is usually the "Left" channel (may be marked as "Channel 1...

AwesomeYears wrote:It says I'm not doing File > Open

What's the exact error message?
Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help > About Audacity")
Is it just one specific project that won't open, or all saved projects?

On Debian 8 Jessie, the default "device" is PulseAudio, which in this context you can think of as a "virtual device" in that it isn't actually a hardware device but a middle-man between the application (Audacity) and the hardware devices. Unfortunately, using "Pulse" (P...

You could add labels (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html) at the relevant points, then export the label track (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/labe ... tml#export)

Note that "editing" has different interpretations. As you'll recall, some of these users want to pan or amplify to look or listen better, but they don't think of that as "editing". The relevant interpretation to this proposal is: "does not modify the audio data". If we...

Crossed posts. Please see my previous reply. If you want to make your own "gate", the Noise Gate in the link may be instructive.

One one of the tech podcasting sites they have been adamant that you should not export your Audacity soundfiles to MP3, that you should, instead, export your Audacity soundfile to AIFF and then put that into iTunes and let iTunes convert the AIFF to mp3. Don't believe all you read. The argument is ...

Topic moved to General Audio Programming. Audacity doesn't use .Net. Audacity is written mostly in C++ and built using WxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org/). Audacity is primarily designed as a GUI application, however there is source code available for an experimental optional module that allows Au...

I'm not sure exactly what you are wanting to do, but I'm guessing that a "noise gate" is the effect you are looking for: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Noise_Gate

Returning to the OP's original proposition (emphasis mine): I use Audacity for playback and analysis, but not editing of audio files as part of my work. In this use case, the save project prompt that appears on exit is a nuisance. There is an alternative approach to resolving this "nuisance&quo...