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When you export a track (or multiple tracks), the exports start from the beginning of the audio in the track and ends at the end of the audio in the track. To make the exported track start from time=0.0, the track must start at time=0.0. I agree it would be very useful if there were an option to tel...

Press the END key to go to the end of the project,
then generate some silence (Generate menu)
then Export.

I have the same issue as well. Please don't say that. It is hardly ever the case even if there are similarities in the symptoms. If you are recording from a microphone (including the built-in mic on laptop computers, then you MUST use headphones and not speakers to listen. Let's take the case of re...

Open Audacity, then from the File menu in Audacity select "Open". That will open a file window where you can navigate to the AUP file that you saved. Select the AUP file and then click the "Open" button. If that does not work, please tell us: 1) The exact name of the AUP file 2) ...

Open the AUP file with Audacity.
The AUP file tells Audacity what to do with all of those little data files.

Assuming that everything works as it should (no crashes or other catastrophes) this is what will happen. 1) When you "Import" the WAV file, Audacity creates "alias" files that point to parts of the WAV file. These are stored in Audacity's temp file and take up very little space b...

Let's say that you want to normalize to -1.12 dB. 1) Normalize to -1 dB 2) Amplify by -0.12 dB The result is that the peak level is -1.12 dB. In both Amplify and Normalize, the dB measurement is relative to "full scale" (0 dB), so -1.12 dB is -0.12 dB less than -1.0 dB. A simple example to...

Wanting to bring up multiple tracks to the same level at > 1 decimal place accuracy in one step rather than very many steps is another. It would be two steps. 1) Normalize to the nearest 1 dB 2) Amplify by the decimal part. You agree that this is an edge case, and as such I don't see a problem in t...

bomber1978 wrote:there probably wouldn't be any audible difference between the AC3 and 384kbps MP2 would there?

Probably not,

Many common formats are encumbered by patent and/or other licensing issues that prevent us from including encoders/decoders by default.. However, Audacity is able to use appropriate versions of "FFmpeg" to greatly increase the number of supported formats. See here for more information: htt...