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A lot of people used to leave Dolby turned off during playback because they liked the "brighter" sound (treble boost). I didn't... I used it correctly but it's not "terrible" without it. I found it useful to turn Dolby off during playback of some old cassettes, because cassettes...

Isn't Audacity® in Microsoft Store from our support ? It seems that someone (a parasite) unrelated to the Audacity Team has decided to profiteer from our work. They've put "Audacity" (or possibly a modified version of Audacity) into Microsoft Store so that they can pocket the money from p...

I'm sorry for all of my questions, but now I'm attempting to recreate all of the audio edits from Blender in Audacity Haha - what started out as a simple little job ... :D Seriously though, this sounds great. I need to be able to import trimmed audio files into specific spots and tracks. Normally y...

Corvinus wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:08 pm

Are you suggesting a Nyquist plug-in?

Yes.
I've had a bit of a play with this idea, and a basic version looks quite simple to implement. If you start that new forum topic I'll be happy to share.

Audacity uses "32-bit float PCM" format internally. This format has benefits of not only great sound quality, but also the ability to support audio above 0dB.
Most WAV files are "16 or 24 bit integer PCM", which cannot go over 0dB (anything over 0 dB is simply clipped off).

A file ending in ".ny" is a "Nyquist plug-in". They need to be installed, and then enabled in Audacity.
See here for instruction how to do that: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... st_install

To shift clips in multiple tracks together: Select across all of the tracks that you want to move. Switch to the Time Shift tool click on a track inside the selected area and drag. Note that if you click and drag from outside of the selected area, the clips will not move together. Ref: https://manua...

jademan wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:11 pm

Still updated in 5-second chunks

Yes, it will do.
The spectrogram is calculated only when the data exists on disk. The data is written in (approx) 6 second chunks.

Is there a feature ... that will allow me to "rewind" or "fast forward" the track I am editing to a place of my choosing? There are several shortcuts available. (I assume that you already know that you can click on a track when stopped to set the play position) To get the full s...

Could both of their voices be equally nonsymmetrical, both hairy at the bottom? The flat top to that waveform suggests that the recording has been pretty heavily processed, making it hard to guess why it looks like it does. DC Offset is when the average of all samples is greater or less than zero (...