Audacity Forum

Also, considering, the MP3 process available free (LAME) may be a lesser type then available when one has paid for some device or program containing MP3 features/technology. There have been many advances in psychoacoustic modelling (the main area where audio data compression improvements are possib...

Thanks for telling me that, but is there a way I could amplify or reduce a certain layer of sound in a mixed audio. When the audio was produced within the software there would have been "layers" of sound - the background music, sound effects and speech would have been produced separately,...

Sorry but I don't recognise what you are referring to. Please post a screenshot. If you are using a version of Windows that has the "snipping tool", there are instructions for how to take a screenshot of the relevant part here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/13776/windows-use-sni...

Try picturing it as physical "things" rather than "frequency components: Imagine that you are collecting berries from a bush and you have several baskets to put the berries in. While you are picking the berries you sort them according to size, so, if you have 3 baskets, then you put t...

When you say "Time Track", do you mean like this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/time_tracks.html

Are you wanting to convert from Ogg, or to Ogg? Ogg Vorbis is a lossy compression format and "bit-depth" is not meaningful for such formats. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_bit_depth Bit depth is only meaningful in reference to a PCM digital signal. Non-PCM formats, such as lossy ...

There are two stereo streams of 1 minute 52 seconds. You choose which stream to open, one or both, when you import the file into Audacity. The first stream only has a click at 16 seconds. The second stream has commentary from about 20 seconds. I get the same. @Gale On Windows, would it be worth loo...

Thanks for the suggestion Gale. I wasn't aware of that site until you wrote about it, and I agree that although it's probably not useful for us now, it could be in the future.

At the moment I don't think that would be particularly useful to us. At present, the only thing that they have in place is a selection of 29 "Genres" that SoundCloud users can subscribe to. Audacity music makers cross the boundaries of genres and we have people creating music of many diffe...

If you look at the vertical scale, you will notice that in both cases they are going down to around -90dB. One way to think of the FFT algorithm (on which the spectrum plot is based), is that it splits the full frequency range into a number of equally spaced "bins". So, as a silly but easy...