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Don't use "Fit vertically" when you have lots of tracks. Use "Collapse all tracks" instead (also in the View menu). There is an option to "Expand all tracks" which is basically an "undo" for collapsing all tracks. "Fit vertically" is primarily intend...

Normally you would record at 44100, 32-bit float. This gives excellent recording quality and retains maximum accuracy when processing the audio. If you require a different format for the finished product you would normally set the required format when you Export the file. If you require 32000 Hz sam...

Trouble is, it would seem I have to login to download it. No log-in required, but unfortunately the link was broken :( (must have happened when we moved servers recently). Should be fixed now. The easiest way to download the file (if your web browser allows it) is to right click on the "View&q...

Not sure if it's what you want, but there is a plug-in available for generating narrow band noise:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... band_Noise
Installation instructions: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Downl ... ns#install

Another little tip: very old recording are mono. This effect creates an artificial "stereo" effect, which can help to make the sound subjectively more "full", especially on headphones (as with all effects, don't overdo it ;)) The plug-in: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist...

Hi FTF, Audacity uses a number of libraries for importing, notably libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) for most of the natively supported audio formats, and the optional FFmpeg library for many other formats including video formats (though Audacity only extracts the audio streams from ...

Sort of like how spell-check in MS word jumps you from one (potentially) misspelled word to the next. Nice idea, but spoken words are much more complex than written words. Here we can see three words, as both waveforms and spectrograms. The words are "some", "um" and "room&...

(abs-env (stereo-chorus (osc 56 5) 0.0)) The final argument (0.0) in your code will be ignored because you have not given a "key-symbol". See here for how "&key" is used: http://www.audacity-forum.de/download/edgar/nyquist/nyquist-doc/xlisp/xlisp-ref/xlisp-ref-143.htm Exampl...

coreynj wrote:if I download it as .wav (from the same way I download as .mp3) and attempt to import it, it gives me this error.

Seems that your downloaded WAV file is either corrupt, or it is not really a WAV file.