Audacity Forum

The "MP3 Library Version" continued to show 3.99.3, regardless of which lame_enc.dll was being used. My guess is that Audacity is still using 3.99.3, even though you "told it" to use the other one. (Audacity "tries" to load a version that works). What are the essential...

Gale Andrews wrote:I don't see why the podcasting and making music groups are not equally a "community forum".

They are, but so far we have not had anyone posting generic Audacity support questions in those forums, so I don't think that point requires emphasis.

do you mean that it adds the least amount of noise If by "least amount of noise" you mean "sounds quietest", then yes. Technically , it gets a bit complicated. The "peak level" of shaped dither is a little higher than other types of dither (such as triangle or rectangl...

An easy and convenient way is with OggDropXPd.
See this page for details of this and other options: http://www.vorbis.com/setup_windows/

Please note that re-encoding the files will reduce the sound quality a bit.

If there are tracks that sound noticeably distorted, forget them and concentrate on the others. If a track sounds obviously distorted then it is almost certainly beyond repair.

Good, It sounds like you have sorted it out now

There's a tutorial about basic editing with Audacity that you may find helpful: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... _file.html

Please post the output from "Audio Device Info" from the Audacity Help menu.

Thanks for the help so far. Well we've ruled out quite a few possibilities, but not really got any further identifying what the actual problem is. I thought it was a problem with the software though, as it has worked fine for ages. We can "reset" Audacity back to "factory settings&qu...

My internal systems are pretty messed up though Doesn't sound good. Recording audio is quite demanding on the system and can quickly reveal existing problems. At your earliest convenience I would highly recommend backing up all of your data and sorting it out - with a clean install of your operatin...

I've already voted for this feature, but prompted by a post HERE I've made a little video to demonstrate a feature that I'd like to see in Audacity. This demonstration was created by exporting data from Audacity's "Plot Spectrum", then plotting an "interactive" graph in (open sou...