Audacity Forum

I think a strong case can be made that both of these sledgehammers should be implemented. +1 Though there is a difference in application. In the case where Audacity cannot be launched, only the external application can be used - this may need to be a bigger sledgehammer, or could offer a number of ...

The only way that we will get agreement about the meters is if users can choose what sort of meters they want. That would require either: a) A huge number of preferences for meters. b) Meters as plug-ins (with several meters to choose from and each meter plug-in handles its own preferences. Looking ...

I'd be happy with A, B, no change, or a combination of A and B.
I'm not so keen on C.
I'd prefer that "x" is always 1.

Which is "this" version? 2.0.7 For those users who go back (even temporarily) to old versions to fix a problem, actually letting them reset preferences in that version (which is what they were intending to do) may help them solve whatever the problem was. I thought we were talking about u...

If you use the Zoom as an audio interface on Windows, you will only get 16 bit resolution in Audacity due to a limitation between Audacity and the Windows drivers. (you will probably also pick up the sound of the computer fan). If you record on the Zoom and import the WAV file into Audacity then Aud...

Ensuring that old preferences don't break the new version is about backward compatibility. Ensuring that old projects can be opened in the new version is backward compatibility. Are you opposed to those things? Not at all. Where backward compatibility can be maintained without crippling new develop...

Consider if user has a problem that they can't launch Audacity until they do a complete reset of .cfg The likely outcome is that Audacity 2.0.7 then launches and that's the end of the story. With your plan, if they go back to the old version (perhaps they have not downgraded but still have it), and...

Topic split and given a relevant title. I can not get the mp3 downloaded music to play "MP3" is a file format. I presume that you are talking about a track in Audacity that you have imported from an MP3? Audacity tracks are not files - Audacity can copy data from an MP3 file by Importing t...

Steve, we're talking specifically about the best way of resetting the .cfg file here. Yes, and you are basing your suggestion on the possibility of users upgrading to the new version, then downgrading to an obsolete version, and running into problems with the old version and expecting that resettin...

The second piece of code is better, particularly if you were removing long sections of silence. Iterating through millions of samples is very slow and may crash unless you are very careful. (I formatted your code to make it more readable - I prefer not to count parentheses to see where a do loop end...