Audacity Forum

My church has been using an old version (1.3.13) on Windows XP because that was supposed to be the highest version that allowed compiling ASIO. That's incorrect. Audacity 1.3.13 is obsolete and no longer supported. The current 2.0.5 version of Audacity can be built with ASIO support (for your own u...

By the way, I'd recommend, for complex projects, to make regular back-ups. "File menu > Save Project As..." Each time you create a backup, give it a unique name. I use a naming scheme that uses numbers added to the end of the project name: myproject001 myproject002 myproject003 ... The hig...

Orphan block files are not unusual after a crash. In most cases they are just unused temporary files that were not removed (because Audacity did not have time to clean up before closing). Do not delete them manually! I'm guessing that the "problem" is just that you have the "Solo butt...

The old 1.2.x version of Audacity had separate options for exporting as WAV or MP3. The current 2.0.5 version of Audacity supports exporting many more formats, so all formats are exported using the same "File > Export" command, and the required format is then selected in the Export dialog ...

What are you trying to record? Note that recording in-game sound can be problematic due to the demands that running both the game and Audacity simultaneously put onto the computer. There is specialist software designed specifically for recording in-game sound called "Fraps", but note that ...

Renaming a file does not change the format. Your "other program" may be able to play the file if it has a file extension of ".mp3", but that does not mean that the file actually is MP3 format. Audacity is able to import and play MP3 format files, so that would indicate that the f...

Any engineers/audio experts here ever heard about the waveform RMS (light blue middle section in Audacity waveform) having to stay within the RMS max specs of amp and speaker output? The signal level, whether "peak" level, "root mean square" ("rms" / "RMS") o...

You will need to boost the bass and/or reduce the treble, AND apply a high degree of dynamic compression, for example with a limiter (http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... er_.282.29)

".ga" is not a standard file extension as far as I'm aware. The actual file type could be a standard type but with a non-standard file extension, or it could be a non-standard file type. Windows uses the file extension to determine the file type, so in either case Windows is unlikely to be...

This forum topic may help you to phrase your question in a way that allows us to help you: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=63799 This set of Tutorials in the manual may help you get your tapes onto CD: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidisc...