Audacity Forum

Audacity projects are "huge" because the audio data is stored in extremely high quality 32-bit float format. Exporting as 16-bit WAV is "only" CD quality, so yes there is some loss of "quality", though the loss is extremely small. The size of this "loss" is in...

Is that how it would work? I don't recall. If the user never changed the default, they have no preference set in audacity.cfg, so would the behaviour not change to the "Simple" behaviour in the release that changes the default? if the user has opened and OK'd any preference page, the Solo...

I'd be happy for us to split this issue into two parts - one a bug, and the other an enhancement. The bug is that the out-of-the-box default save/export directory is not writeable for regular users when Audacity is correctly installed. I agree that "Documents" would be a big improvement, a...

Thanks for the input DickN. I hoping to be able to work with Leland on this - there's some tricky coding stuff involved and he has the experience and expertise to pull it off, though the time scale for these enhancements will depend on his availability. I know that he's keen to make some changes to ...

Congratulations, that's a very encouraging start.

rachalmers wrote:The message then goes on to give me lots of good advice on how to achieve the specific requirements.

Feel free to post that here too. It probably has good tips for other Audacity users.

There's nothing personal about it. DPA doesn't even make LDC's. It's a physical/technical fact. It's a bit of a reaction against the commercial statement that LDC's are "the best" for voice recording. Technically, they will always be a little bit inferior. http://www.dpamicrophones.com/ac...

It is very common for there to be differences between applications support of Metadata, though I don't think that should really happen with FLAC because the tags for FLAC are well defined. For MP3 there are several different standards, and for WAV there is no formal standard (just some "chunks&...

If you launch Audacity and import the FLAC file, then open the Metadata Editor, does Audacity show the same Genre that you set in Audacity?

What file format are you exporting?
Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help > About Audacity")

Since Equalization doesn't have a cursor with frequency readout That would be useful wouldn't it. By "real-time preview" do you mean while user is adjusting it? I mean that you can play the track while adjusting the controls, like you can do with supported VST effects in Audacity 2.1.1. T...