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If it's a one-off, the manual way is probably easiest. 1) Duplicate the track (select the track, then Ctrl+D) 2) Set the first track to "Left Channel" (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audio_track_dropdown_menu.html) 3) Set the duplicate track to "Right Channel". 4) Appl...

As an aside, I do find the way that the new tempo is specified a bit confusing, and wonder if it wouldn't be useful to have a field labelled as "Ratio of new tempo to original (0.5 to 2.0)" That would be possible, but I think there is a limit to the number of ways of specifying the same t...

If you only want the Vinyl effect, extract the ZIP file somewhere convenient, then look for the file "vinyl_1905.so" among the extracted files (there are over 90 effects in that zip archive and you probably do not want all of them). Then put the "vinyl_1905.so" file into one of t...

The "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" effect takes a lot longer to process, but the sound quality is usually much better.
See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sl ... shift.html

When you first launch Audacity, or if you rescan for new plugins, Audacity searches several specified locations. On Windows these are: The Audacity plug-ins folder in the location Audacity is run from: the "Plug-Ins" folder in the directory where Audacity resides - usually C:Program Files ...

but if i cut up an mp3 and use the same method it does save but if i check the properties its shows the "type of file " as file and the short cut is a white paper with top right folded up but just plain white . OK, I'm not sure exactly what you are doing, but I'll bet the reason for your ...

I'm guessing that you've recently updated from an ancient 1.2.x version? In the 2.x series (and the 1.3.x series before it), the "File > Save" menu item is for saving Audacity projects. To create a normal audio file, use "File > Export Audio". Because Audacity 2.x supports so man...

Both "Roxio" and "Nero" are global companies that specialise in digital media creation.
Audacity is a free, open source multi-track audio editor,

(Also, Nero WaveEditor is now free)

Audacity 2.1.0 for Windows has been built with a later version of Microsoft visual studio. If your computer does not have sufficiently up to date run-time libraries, that could account for the problem. The developers were wanting to avoid breaking support for Windows XP as there are still such a hig...

In Audacity 2.1.0 you can categorise effects according to a number of criteria (such as grouping VSTs separate from LADSPA separate from Nyquist...) See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/effects_preferences.html Also, on Windows you can jump down to the next plugin that starts with a particular ...