Audacity Forum

So you say it's not the same to open Audacity twice from a shortcut and open it once and then press "ctrl+n"? Yes, that's what I'm saying. Ctrl+N creates a new project within the same instance of Audacity. In other words, there is only one "Audacity" program running, and it is r...

davemans wrote:For some reason I was running v1.2.6!

That'll explain it.

It's still there, but you may have accidentally hidden it.
To reset the toolbars to their defaults:
"View menu > Toolbars > Reset Toolbars"

I think "that feature" was a bug. There should only ever be one instance of Audacity running at a time (within the same Shell environment). If there are multiple instances then there is a very real danger of one instance overwriting data belonging to the other instance, which may lead to b...

Any way to join two six channel files together? Yes, but it's a bit tricky. When you import a 6 channel file, you will get six channels appear in Audacity. These may appear either as 6 mono tracks, or as one stereo track + 4 mono tracks. Let's refer to those 6 channels as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. When ...

Audacity cannot play multi-channel sounds, but it can import and export multi-channel files. By default, when you export from Audacity, the tracks will be mixed down to mono or stereo (depending on whether it is a mono or stereo show), but you can override that behaviour by changing one of the Prefe...

I've still have a bad feeling about the frequency smoothing. It should imo be logarithmic and not linear I'm having trouble with "Frequency Smoothing" and "Sensitivity". I don't know how to advise people about these controls other than "leave them at their default settings&...

It's likely to have been a temporary glitch.

The site is working now, but it is slow. I'm guessing that is due to a huge surge of traffic following the release of Audacity 2.1.0
I used this link for Lame for Windows: http://lame.buanzo.org/#lamewindl

If you are playing back using PulseAudio, try launching Audacity from a Terminal window using:
Experiment with the "30" number to find the optimum value.

Does adding a -10dB sound to another -10dB sound, does it remain -10dB? Mixing two sounds of equal amplitude will produce a signal that is at most +6dB higher than the individual tracks. The exact level depends on the relative phase of the two signals (and rare cases may even be less than the peak ...