Audacity Forum

Gale Andrews wrote:If you are able to use a mouse, the quicker method is to hold CTRL then drag vertically. When you hold CTRL then drag, the clip can only move vertically, not horizontally.

Great tip - If I ever knew that, I'd forgotten about it.

To get the "exact" same place in time: 1) Select the audio that you you want to move. 2) Alt+Ctrl+X ("Split Cut" also in the "Edit > Remove Special" menu") 3) "Enter" key (de-select current track) 4) Up/down cursor to the track where you want to move it t...

You could trim off the leading silence using the "Truncate Silence" effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... lence.html
Then "Align Tracks Together": http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... html#align

and recovery says there are irregularities Are you sure it says that? Not "orphan block files"? The current version of Audacity is 2.0.6 and there have been a lot of bug fixes since 2.0.3, so it is worth updating when you can. You can download the current version from here: http://audacit...

If you need it accurate, 1) open a stereo track "Tracks > Add New > Stereo Track". 2) Make a selection where you want the sound to be, say the first 10 seconds of the track. 3) Open the "Nyquist Prompt" effect. 4) Copy and paste this code into the Nyquist Prompt text box. (setq p...

In the Linux script, to get a 3 second pre-roll, there should be another: Also I find that the 1 second pause near the end of the script can be reduced to 0.1 seconds, though that will probably vary from one machine to another.

Is that a concern if I use something like Kaspersky on the XP computer? Kaspersky should give you pretty good protection against viruses, but there are many other ways that computers may be compromised other than viruses. The big problem with XP now, is that it is not maintained. If any of the &quo...

kozikowski wrote:So you can get close with the optical mean of the meter wiggle.
Koz

YMMV

What does the tool do? What it says on the tin. It counts the number of samples, multiplies each sample value by itself (square of the sample value), adds up all of the "squared" sample values and divides the sum by the number of sample (mean of the squared values), then takes the square ...

I am wondering why the post before last is one of my early posts, as if a current response to Steve from filmjhohnn21 (?) Thanks for mentioning that. filmjhon21 was a spammer, trying to sneak a few posts onto the forum, presumably with the idea of replacing them with adverts for who knows what late...