Audacity Forum

but please don't inconvenience other people assuming you will only cause them "minor" inconvenience. Perhaps I didn't express it very well. The current behaviour assumes that the user will want to disregard the mute status of the track, even though this is inconsistent with how mixing wor...

Aside: Assuming the export behaviour probably won't change without a lot of argument I do think we should warn whenever we export with a Mute button on, not just when all tracks are muted. This prevents nasty surprises. Then add "Exporting tracks with Mute on" to Warnings Preferences. I p...

As a general rule, the project format should be set as high as possible. for some DAWs that's 24-bit, but for Audacity it is 32-bit float.

Try adjusting "Audio to buffer" as described here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... mac_buffer

Dana_Tucker wrote:You should increase your settings from 16 bit to 24 bit in your Preferences under "Quality".

Best to leave it at the default "32-bit float" setting. Audacity works internally in 32-bit float format, so by using this as the track format avoids repeatedly converting the format.

There is a file size limit for normal WAV files of 4 GB. Audacity can handle longer durations than this (subject to sufficient drive space) but the WAV format can't. You will need to export in a different format. As you don't need high quality for this, I'd suggest that you export as OGG or MP3. Exp...

Naive users won't know what "Mix Down" is - just like they expect Solo to work on one track only. I know what Mix and Render is. It does what I would expect. I had never come across the term "Mix and Render" until I saw it in Audacity.. Even now I can't think of any other applic...

DickN wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote: ...especially given we have a bug with exporting by labels when there are multiple tracks.

What's the bug? Searching Audacity Bugs on Sourceforge.net, so far I've only found bug #284, which happens when exporting by tracks.

This one: http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199

So if I convert CD-Audio track to MP3 160 kbps, then that file will have the cut-off line at around 16.5 hHz only in theory, because something may leak above it? But Wikipedia entry on the MP3 format says that: Because of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem, frequency reproduction is always strict...

So to meet that request do I assume Audacity would have to do what amounts to a behind-the-scenes Plot Spectrum analysis before it could display the spectrogram? If so I think Worez would find the delay unacceptable. Plot Spectrum is limited to just over 10 million samples and even that takes a cou...