Audacity Forum

That's useful to know (I think). I'm not sure what you mean by 'caused by processing'. If you set your recording levels too high and the recording is clipped (distorted), then that is permanent - time to reshoot. If you have a good, non-distorted recording and you apply an effect that results in th...

On Windows you can type the first letter of the effect that you want and the list will scroll down to the first effect that begins with that letter. Repeated presses of that key will scroll to the next effect that begins with that letter.

Are you getting a stereo (2 channel) track when you record, or a mono (1 channel) track?

the first seconds of the recording are ok, but after a while the sound recorded by Audacity starts lowering its volume That will be Windows sound "enhancements" trying to help you. Turn off the "enhancements" (See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooti...

Record as a stereo (2 channel) track, then after recording, split the stereo track into 2 mono tracks.
See here for splitting stereo tracks: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sp ... racks.html

Me on a zoom h4n, and the second person on his computer using audacity. Two independent recording devices will never run at exactly the same speed. Better quality recording equipment is likely to run closer to the "correct" speed, but it will never be absolutely exact. In order to bring t...

Terrill wrote:e.g., adding karaoke-style lyrics to accompany the media

Perhaps better to use a video format for such applications (until such time as the technology improves).

Audacity 2.0.6 is the current version. There have been many bug fixes and feature enhancements since 2.0.3 so I would definitely recommend upgrading. If you used the recommended installer for 2.0.3, then you will be able to simply run the recommended installer for 2.0.6 to upgrade to the current ver...

Gale mentioned previously that Ctrl+Click Quick Play and Timeline Quick Play are not directly comparable. Your examples agree with that. On the one hand I think it is confusing that we have two different types of "Quick Play" that behave differently. On the other hand, I would expect jog/s...

Ogg Vorbis is VBR by design (so as to achieve best sound quality for the specified bit rate). With your test page, the VBR is within 1 second for me (Firefox on Linux), which I guess would be perfectly adequate for most purposes. The good news is that HTML5 media support is gradually improving acros...