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Gianfranco64 wrote: I select all and change the speed without changing the pitch,

Which effect are you using? Change Tempo?
For higher quality tempo changing, use the "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" effect.

omegaman21 wrote:a few seconds into recording, sometimes minutes, it will stop recording, and the "needle" will start flashing.

Do you mean the vertical red line that indicates the recording position? In what way does it "flash"? Is there an error message? Are the recording meters still active?

Question: Is there a general consensus for frequencies/peaks below 100 hertz, roughly the 0 to 70 hertz range, that these should be reduced, if too high, to a certain level? For vocals, peaks below about 100 Hz tend to make the sound "muddy" / "boomy" and can make it difficult t...

The simplest way is to install it using the package manager ("Software Centre"). This 'may' give you an old version - I'm not sure if Mint have caught up with the current release yet. Try installing it and then look in the Audacity "Help menu > About Audacity" to see which versio...

There is no way to prevent a "file" from being copied, other than by preventing it from being read. If you are thinking about " DRM ", that works by restricting the ability to read the file through an "authentication system". As far as I'm aware this does not apply to M...

If you've not done any scripting before then it's probably not worth the effort. However, with a "bash script" you could perhaps overwrite the audacity.cfg file with one of your choosing using the "cp" command (http://ss64.com/bash/cp.html) Of course, you would need to decide how...

There is no built-in way to make Audacity "forget" the window size. Most people want Audacity to open with the previous window size, so that is how it is designed to work (as are most other applications). However, the window size is stored in the "audacity.cfg" file (by default t...

What do you mean by "geometry"?

For Ma OS X: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/bl ... /Build.txt

7) Download wxWidgets. We currently require version 3.0.2, which can be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindo ... .2.tar.bz2

rachalmers wrote:wxWidgets-3.1 is out and very stable.

Is that officially supported by Audacity? I'd need to check the "compile.txt" file. I've been using 3.0.2 which is the latest "stable release" (and definitely IS officially supported by Audacity) https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/