Audacity Forum

whateverman wrote:Why also aren't their smaller ratios than 1.5 to 1? That's a real blunt tool.

1.5 to 1 is a very small amount of compression, especially if you set the Threshold quite high. With a compression ratio of 1.5:1 and a high threshold, the effect will be so subtle that you can't hear the difference.

I just removed libwxgtk3.0-0 and installed libwxgtk2.8-0, - but now worse: configure: Checking that the chosen version of wxWidgets is 3.0.x configure: error: Unable to locate a suitable configuration of wxWidgets v3.0.x or higher. The current development code requires Wx3. The Audacity 2.1.1 relea...

Beside this - i don't understand why some software like audacity cannot get in the mainstream of debian or ubuntu Feel free to petition the distribution maintainers ;) and be always synchrinized with libraries well this particular update is one that we have been putting off for as long as possible ...

The name "compressor" is common shorthand for "dynamic range compression effect". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

How desperate are you? Audacity is upgrading from WxGtk 2.8 to WxGtk 3.0 so right now the source code is highly volatile and problems are expected. All being well the release date is due somewhere around September. You could try building the Audacity 2.1.1 release source code, but note that this req...

How do I cut everything above X db down to Y db?

That depend on X and Y.

If Y is above X , then use a compressor
If Y = X, then use a brick wall limiter
If Y is below X, then use the Pop Mute effect

All you guys that are getting the error:

Error Initializing Audio

Could not find any audio devices
You will not be able to play or record audio

Error:Internal PortAudio error

Please see this topic: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 10#p231615

chrzaszcz wrote:It is a bug; I've been using export multiple like that for a long time, and I never had this problem until now. Will it be fixed?

No doubt it can and will be fixed now that we know about it
Which version were you using where it worked ?

Ah, I see what's happening. The way that one would normally use Export Multiple is either: If you have a single track with multiple songs: Label each song and Export Multiple based on labels. If you have multiple songs, each in their own track: Export Multiple based on tracks. What you have is multi...

What is the exact version of Audacity that you are using? Note that the most recent version of Audacity was released before Windows 10 was officially released, so Windows 10 is not officially supported (though it is believed to work OK). I was planning to record something on Audacity What were you p...