Audacity Forum

one reply suggested that I should look for an OS that works; I thought El Capitan worked. Not really I serious reply imo. El Capitan is not my favourite OS, and all OSs have their quirks, but I'd certainly say "it works". There is however a serious point in this that some OSs (and probabl...

garygrover wrote: why did it submit the post rather than saving it as a draft?

No idea. I've just tested saving a draft and it works for me. Perhaps a glitch in the forum software, but I can't reproduce the problem.

Not without additional software. Windows does not provide a way to record some sounds that are playing and not others - it's an all or nothing deal. It 'may' be possible (I don't use Windows so I've not tried) to do what you want with the aid of "Voicemeeter" or similar software (http://vb...

Audacity has limited ability for "batch processing" - it's called "Chains".
See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/chai ... ation.html

I'm looking for a way to record just a .midi file of what I'm playing on the drums so that I can load that .midi file into EZDrummer (Better sounding drums than the Alesis set). To record MIDI you need a "MIDI Sequencer". Most "DAW" (Digital Audio Workstation) applications inclu...

Could anybody help let me know how to use the start time of my recording data as a (saved) exported file name, such as 132055May202016.mp3? In the current release version of Audacity you have to do that manually. In the next release version there will be a setting in Preferences to customise the de...

Audacity is available for free download from the Audacity website: http://audacityteam.org/download/

jimbo1qaz wrote:This is actually a pretty important issue for me. Has anyone made progress towards fixing it?

I ended up fixing it myself. The task can now be achieved with shift+click in the Timeline.
For more details, see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html#tqp

Check in the Windows Sound Control Panel that Windows is set to record 2 channel stereo from the device. Then Launch Audacity and ensure that Audacity is set to record 2 channel stereo in the device toolbar.

Given the title of your post, are you wanting a reply to your questions or can I delete this topic?