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I plant my cursor right where I want to add sound and then what? Press Ctrl + i to split the track (or Edit menu > Clip Boundaries > Split) Use the Time Shift tool to slide the later part of your recording to the right, and leave plenty of space for your inserted recording. Press the Record key (sh...

There is no difference in Flac format between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1. The main differences are a few small encoding/decoding speed improvements to the encoder/decoder.

+1 for Trebor's answer.

to record a track from YouTub Better to "download" rather than "record". There a plug-ins ("Add Ons") available for Firefox web browser that allow you to download YouTube videos (search with your favourite search engine to find a good free one). You can then extract th...

Glad you got it working
I'll close this topic as "solved"/

+1 for waxcylinder's proposal. Clarification on one point: Stopped mode 3) Attempt to keep the same time position of the centre of the visible track area, but pin the earliest time to zero (don't show time before zero). i.e no "white space" and no auto turning on of show audio before zero....

All sound must be in stereo, a wav file, cd quality 44khz or 22khz and no metadata "CD quality" is 44.1 kHz, NOT "44 kHz". "22 kHz" is probably wrong also - that would be a very unusual sample rate. The closest standard sample rate is 22.05 kHz (22050 Hz). To ensure th...

and an alternative solution:

I've been playing with SND-FFT, which requires the "length" parameter to be a power of 2 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/doc/nyquist/part10.html#index828 This is a little snippet for calculating the largest power of 2 less than a given number: (defun highest-power-of-2 (val) (do ((n 2 (* n 2)))...

blinddon wrote:Recording music off YouTube

Are you using the "WASAPI loopback" method as described here? http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html