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Audacity does not have a built-in LUFS meter, but there are VST LUFS meters available which may work with Audacity on Windows. All LUFS meters should give the same loudness measurement, so whether you use the Klangfreund, Hornet Elm128 or any other LUFS meter, you 'should' get the same measurement. ...

cyrano wrote:And most of today's desktops are portables in disguise.

Do you make this stuff up as you go along?
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Exact steps : 1. Finish recording. 2. Close the laptop 3. Unplug the microphone 4. Plug in the microphone again 5. Open the laptop Where does "Launch Audacity" figure in that? If you Quit audacity between steps and 2, and launch Audacity after step 5 (after allowing a few moments for the ...

cyrano wrote:It's not OSX that messes that up...

It's OS X that doesn't exit applications when you click the close button.
It's OS X that controls power management on a Mac.
It's OS X that controls USB ports on a Mac.

The order that you do things is all important. When Audacity is launched, it will uses the devices that were used last, if they are available . If the device that was used last is not available when Audacity is launched , then Audacity will look for an available device and try to use the first avail...

Robert J. H. wrote:Did you know that the first kiss on TV

on "American TV".

Just playing around with the idea, I quite liked this version: (the duration 29.2 seconds is one complete cycle which can be looped) ;type generate (setf r1 149.0) (setf r2 108.0) (setf t1 365.0) (setf t2 (/ (* 8 365.0) 13.0)) (setf dur 29.2) (setf basehz1 440) (setf basehz2 440) (setf xt (sum baseh...

Perhaps you clicked on the vertical ruler at the left edge of the track? Doing so will zoom in vertically.
To zoom out, right click on the ruler, or "shift + right click" to zoom back to normal.
See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audi ... html#scale

If you've not closed the project yet I'd suggest that you undo the changes that you've made so far and then redo them using the Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift effect. If you can't undo, but you only need to adjust the length a tiny bit, then perhaps better to use the "Change Speed" effec...

The next version of Audacity will have an additional option in the Change Pitch effect to tell it to use an alternative algorithm that accurately maintains the tempo. Until then, use the Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/slid ... shift.html