Audacity Forum

Have you tried this? (read down to the final post) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1881366

There's a bit about the project rate in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/se ... .html#rate

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What are you wanting to record?

I'd recommend working in 32-bit float "sample format" with a sample rate of 44100 Hz.

I ask because that Project Rate seems to default to 44 kHz. The default project rate is 44100 Hz. That is , 44100 samples per second for each channel. The default sample format is 32-bit float. That means for a stereo track, the "bit rate" is 44100 x 2 (channels) x 32 (bits per sample) = ...

Which version of Audacity?
How did you install it?
Which version of Linux?

RAaudacity wrote: Pulseaudio stopped working

What does that mean precisely? Is PulseAudio running?

Please post the output from the Audacity "Help menu > Audio device info"

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isn't the point of the crossfade that at least somewhere, both songs will sound together? Yes, after they have been faded. Breaking down the process of making a crossfade: 1) Fade out the end of the first song 2) Fade in the start of the second song 3) Overlap the two fades and mix them ('sum' them...

Taking a somewhat 'unscientific' approach, I've roughly drawn by eye a line showing a kind of "average peak level" of your recording as a whole. envelope.png I notice that there's a period of a few minutes where the peaks get higher and higher, then lower again until it finally settles dow...