Audacity Forum

Important concept: " Save " Audacity Projects " Export " audio files An "Audacity Project" is not a normal audio file. As with many digital audio workstations, Audacity works with "projects" that contain audio data, layout data, controller data and other bits...

Editing audio takes time. There's no way round that (other than to pay someone else to do it ;)) In previous employment I used Audacity, Adobe Audition, Cakewalk Sonar and Protools on a daily basis. For most tasks, using Audacity was quickest. For little editing jobs, I could often do the entire tas...

Audacity is designed as a graphical interface application. I'm not aware of any plans to develop a CLI. There is an experimental "scripting interface" (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Scripting_Module) but it is not shipped as standard so it has to be built from the source code. Pro...

sonusmagus wrote: where do I put it to run it?

In the "Nyquist Prompt" effect (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_prompt.html)

subpar wrote:[Note: Amplify is grey at this point].

Most effects are greyed out during Play, Record and Pause. Ensure that playback is stopped (click the Stop button) and not just paused.

I meant 3.7GB and that should be enough to handle an MP3 file of 4 hours duration that occupies 225,000KB. Note that Audacity does not operate on MP3 files. In order to be able to perform the editing and processing functions, compressed formats are expanded to uncompressed 32-bit float audio data o...

Audacity is able to snap to zero crossings (if there is a zero crossing near to the ends of the selection). See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/edit ... .html#zero

Gale Andrews wrote:I thought it was a minimum length in whole seconds.

It's the minimum length in whole samples.

Which version of Windows?
What is the path to the temp directory?
How much space is there on the drive where the temp directory is located?
What is the problem that you're trying to solve?

I'm using Audacity 2.1.2 on a Windows 7 PC. I used the .exe installer. I concatenated several MP3 tracks cut from various songs to create a track for a dance routine, then exported the combined file as an MP3. However, the volume levels of the individual parts vary too much. Is there a way to combi...