Audacity Forum

Heck, do I even need 24 bit recordings??! If you are careful when setting recording levels (maximum peak at about -6 dB), then 16-bit will be fine. 24-bit can be very useful when recording live audio where the dynamic range can be extreme - in particular, amateur players can be highly inconsistent ...

The default MP3 settings in Audacity 1.2.6 were "128 kbps Constant". Audacity 2.1.2 uses higher quality (larger file size) settings by default. To use the old default settings, select "Constant" and "128 kbps" in the Export dialog screen: See: http://manual.audacityteam...

DVDdoug wrote:Note that most simulated stereo gets messed-up if you play it on a mono system (like a cell phone speaker).

The Pseudo Stereo plug-in (Trebor's post) has good mono compatibility. This effect would be my first choice.

Adjust the recording level using "PulseAudio Volume Control".
If you don't already have that installed, it's available in the Ubuntu repository and is called "pavucontrol".

afrantisak71 wrote:Is there a way to create labeled selections?

Yes. You just need to use two numeric values instead of one.
See: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... urn_Values
Example:

Audacity can only monitor up to two separate channels at a time. As you are on Linux, if you use Jack Audio System you could add meters to any number of channels using "Meterbridge" and QJackCtl. Here's a screenshot showing this type of setup with 4 channel recording and independent meteri...

So at the moment you are saying there is no way to place text anywhere in the plugin window. Other than the control labels, that is correct. Each of the controls can have text (usually the name of the control) before the control, and text after the control (intended for adding the units, such as &q...

Puggle creates a database on first use. From first launch of Puggle, setting the search directory, waiting for it to create the database, to getting my first search result, took perhaps 30 seconds. After that, search results are virtually instant. It has "extractors" for "documents&qu...

It is not possible to display the ;info text without modify the Audacity source code. The change was part of a broad overhaul of Audacity effects. The interface for Nyquist plug-ins is created by Audacity rather than by the plug-in itself. The ";info" command in the script (previously) tol...

I don't use Windows, but there are several search applications available for all platforms. One that I tried recently is a Java application that works on Windows, OS X and Linux (requires JAVA to be installed), called Puggle . It's a bit old (2010), but I found that it works very well and when set u...