Audacity Forum

waxcylinder wrote:BUMP - what is the underlying feature request

Do something more helpful than dumbly exporting WAV files > 4GB.

This seems like more of a bugzilla "enhancement" issue rather than a "feature request".

Funny enough, Avast is the only program I have running in the background that would keep track of outdated software. It never told me if there were new versions of Audacity though, perhaps because I had the portable version. I doubt that they keep version information for Audacity as it is not a com...

kozikowski wrote:Piano notes are complex and rich with overtones and harmonics.

You have a picture of that don't you koz? I can't locate it now, but I think the spectrum plot of a piano note explains the problem. Do you have that picture handy?

The hard part about this feature request is "keeping all of the people happy all of the time". Label tracks have been a feature of Audacity for a very long time, and the format has been stable for many years. There could be a lot of Audacity users that rely on the current format, so althou...

Another possibility: do you have any "computer maintenance" programs installed? Some such products can cause substantial delays during first start-up while they try to see if updates are available.

I should mention that a plugin called SC4 keeps Enabling itself when I start up Audacity even though I Disable it each time. Weird. Yes that's a bug. I'm not sure what's causing it, but other than being a bit weird, I think it's harmless. We're looking into that. Nothing jumps out at me about those...

Have you played with any of the "real-time preview" effects yet? In the current (2.1.2) version of Audacity, two of the built-in effects ("Wahwah" and "Phaser"), VST, LADSPA, and LV2 plug-ins (and AU plug-ins on Mac) support real-time preview (see: http://manual.audacit...

The Vig wrote:so I could quickly go back and forth between playback speeds without selecting audio and going through the menu every time

You could avoid going through the menu by making a keyboard shortcut for the Change Speed effect. See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/keyb ... ences.html

kozikowski wrote:I join the other posters complaining about the thick black bar that seems to get stuck at the join point between clips. Why is that there? Is it optional?

If you mean the vertical black "split" line, it indicates the boundaries of two adjacent clips.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/equalization.html

More generally about effects, see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/inde ... yzers.html