Audacity Forum

I'm not a user of either of these features - but five years on I'd back Bill's suggestion to remove the karaoke functionality. The karaoke feature certainly does not seem to be widely used, but there could be hundreds / thousands of people using it that we don't know about, and suddenly removing it...

You don't need to press the Stop button immediately after importing a file or opening a project.
You do need to press the Stop button if Audacity is playing, recording or paused.

The usual cause of frequent crashes on Linux is due to a problem between Portaudio in Audacity and PulseAudio (the default sound system for most Linux distributions. The easiest way round the problem is to tell Audacity to use your sound card directly through ALSA and not use Pulse. To do that, sele...

BTW- I prefer "audio file" as opposed to “waveform”. I did scientific research for 20 years, and the only time a file was referred to as a “waveform" was from an oscilloscope. Audacity does not work directly on "files". Audio data is "imported" into the "Auda...

Keen piper wrote:Where do I choose "recording source"?

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

In my version under Effect I just have Bass Boost - nothing for Treble. You are using an obsolete version of Audacity. The current version is Audacity 2.1.1 and is available here: http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows See here for system requirements: http://web.audacityteam.org/download/win...

cyrano wrote:Could you please add my vote too?

Robert J. H. wrote:And mine as well.

Votes added.

If you are using the current Audacity 2.1.1, use "Manage" to disable the effects that you don't want.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ef ... tml#manage

Audacity currently only supports mono/stereo playback.
Multi-channel playback is one of the highest rated feature requests, but currently we don't have a developer to work on it.
I've added your vote for this feature.

The original feature request here was: Subject: Waveform antialiasing please add the option to draw waveforms with antialiasing. 4 pages on I understand that h-h did not actually mean "anti aliasing" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing). I shall therefore close this topic as h-h agrees...