Audacity Forum

There was a bug in some old versions of Audacity that would cause excessive dither noise on stereo tracks when reducing the bit format from 32 bit float to 16 bit. That bug has been fixed. However, dither noise will still increase if applied multiple times by about 1 dB per conversion. Ideally, conv...

in case the user goes back to 2.0.6 or previous I feel that I must complain about this negative design philosophy (which has come up many time previously). If we're always thinking, "oh, but what if the user wants to go back to an obsolete version of Audacity?" Well that is their choice, ...

Is there a way to limit the amplification so that nothing surpass the 1.0 level? Or at least, is there a way to automatically reduce to 1.0 anything that goes beyond it? Yes, but really there are two parts to your question: Part 1. How to amplify to a peak level of no more than 1.0 (0 dB): Answer: ...

Does your chosen file name conform to the Windows file naming specification? (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) Easiest way to check, lower case letters and numbers are always valid. Try giving it a name that uses only a-z 0-9. Note that opening proj...

ensures that the configuration file has nothing in it other than the "uninitialized" line I don't think that it needs that "uninitialized" line any more (because Audacity no longer reads the 1.2.x preferences), so it could delete the file entirely. What about the new "plugi...

To the best of my knowledge no settings are now "saved on close"; While Audacity is open, open audacity.cfg in a text editor, delete its contents, save it and close the editor. Then close Audacity. Then open audacity.cfg - lots of settings in there. PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1 SelectionFormat=se...

I would quite strongly prefer "Label <what we're labelling>" myself. but then the majority of Analyze tools will be listed as "Label <something>" whether that be beats, envelopes, sounds, silences, zero crossings, clipping, regular intervals, or whatever, which makes it harder t...

The other way around, muted tracks can be brought back to life with solo. (That's a hot phrase for an advertisement, isn't it) :D You're right, but get my drift. But you did not object before (as far as I recall) when it was suggested to "mute" label tracks and time tracks. I'm not a doct...

Think how much more convenient it would be if you wanted to toggle enable/disable of a Time Track. "Enable/Disable": Yes, a useful feature request - and there should be a button in the time track info box for that. +1 "Mute time track": No, that doesn't make sense, at least not ...

All tracks are muted except the bottom track that was unmuted, so that works as expected. Not what I would have expected. I would not expect the time track to be "muted" because there is no sound to mute, and it is not greyed out. If we stretch the meaning of "mute" to mean &quo...