Audacity Forum

I recorded some mp3 files with this audio recorder Why not record in Audacity? The recorder offers me just a few formats, I have chosen the .mp3 (cd quality, lossy 44khz) option. As you are intending to edit the file in Audacity, it would be better to make the original recording in WAV format (44.1...

When I did this with the first file, I noticed that I ended up with four separate files labeled right channel, left channel, mono and mono. One of the mono channel wave patterns appears nearly identical to either the right or left channel(?) in signature and amplitude. It would appear that the file...

I also see that I can create a label with <ctl> B as I want while recording. Sure you can, but does that give you labels where you want them? For the benefit of future forum users that may be looking for the correct way to do this: To create a label at the cursor position during recording or playba...

Audacity does add metadata to MP3 and Ogg files. Whether or not other applications will read that metadata is another question. There are such broad differences between how one application handles metadata and another, that the most reliable way to add metadata that will be read correctly by a parti...

Igor likes his "magic formulae".

I am using the label to mark the entire track but these are one hour long. Having to play the entire program again just to find the segment is tedious. It would be nice to be able to mark the segment. Would this not be useful for other applications? Please see my previous reply. The steps I gave do...

Ctrl+M
then press "Enter".

Optionally you can type text into the label before pressing "Enter".

More about Label tracks in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/label_tracks.html

p,s Is there a shortcut or facility to automatically flatten out a waveform line between two points or induce a curve instead of a spike? If that is for repairing small clicks, then there is the "Repair Tool" http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/repair.html p.p.s Why does the zoom have to...

I clicked open on the file thats was saved Which file? and did exactly what i said happened Your description was obviously not what "literally" happened. No way were there "a billion" files open. So what files did open? Did they open in Audacity? We can't see your machine or wha...

zapsterd wrote:I click open on the file

What is the file name?
Where exactly are you selecting the "open" command?