Audacity Forum

We had a long discussion about this on audacity-devel years ago. The mixing desk usage won the day. I think it's a clear split - developers want it as now, the support/QA side want Solo to be default. Yes I remember, and as an experienced user of mixing desks I remain as convinced now as I was then...

I still don't understand the question, if there is a question. If you want to avoid the noise that is inherent in 8-bit format, then don't use 8-bit format. FLAC format will give approximately the same file size as 8-bit WAV but with vastly superior sound quality (the same sound quality as 16-bit WA...

Is there a question in there somewhere? If you're asking, "is noise unavoidable with 8-bit audio", the answer is "yes, unless the audio is total silence". If you're asking how to make extremely small audio files while preserving as much audio quality as possible, then look at Opu...

The basic scheme that Audacity uses to calculate the progress bar is that it knows what the total length of processed data will be, and it counts the number of data blocks as they are processed and calculates that count as a proportion of the total length. For example, when exporting a project, Auda...

You can open a new Audacity window from the File menu: "File > New", or to open another saved Audacity Project in a new window use "File > Open". However, Audacity is designed to be a multi-track audio editor, so in most cases it is much better to work with multiple tracks in one...

The "Draw Tool" is for making adjustment to tiny sections of the audio (single samples) http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/draw_tool.html If you want to adjust the level of the waveform on a large (zoomed out) scale, you can use the envelope tool http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/enve...

Audacity is a large and complex program with about half a million lines of code. The code is split into several hundred files, mostly .cpp and .h files as Audacity is mostly written in C++. The files are sorted into multiple directories. The source code that is directly concerned with building the A...

Below is a photo of two recordings. No, that's a picture from you Poker blog. I toggled software playthrough, Software playthrough should be off (not selected). Turning it on may cause feedback (loud squeal) or echoes. set the Recording Device to my Yeti since that's also where my audio comes throu...

connected to line-in of MBP The mic needs to be plugged into a "mic" input, not a "line" input. The difference is that a mic input is about a thousand times more sensitive than a line input. I don't understand why you posted to the Windows forum. I presume that was an error so I...

Does the computed filter response curve accurately show the response between frequency points in the transform domain? Do you mean. does the green line match what the effect actually does to the audio? I was going to ask you that :-) Coming at the practical issue from another direction, how about i...