Audacity Forum

DiamondDigital wrote:Maybe it should come with basic instructions.

"Help menu > Quick Help" for a brief introduction to using Audacity.
"Help menu > Manual" for the full user manual.

If I logout now and the log back in with the correct user ID and password (1st time), I should not have to enter a CAPTCHA each time, correct? Yes you should, but that's working fine here (with the same user credentials as yours). If it's a problem with log-in session cookies, clearing your web bro...

Robert J. H. wrote:It might be necessary and convenient too add a Maximum Length control.

Is there a use case for that?

Try running each command manually. What happens?

The "Wave Stats..." plug-in (file name "stats.ny" posted here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=99454#p99454) is limited to analyzing 30 seconds of audio. The "RMS" measure is true RMS (unweighted / Zero Weighted / Z-Weighted) relative to full scale (0 dB) ...

Why does the forum software keep telling me now "You exceeded the maximum allowed number of login attempts..... No idea. Perhaps your Caps Lock button was down. If you are the only person that uses that computer and you use Firefox web browser, you can allow Firefox to remember your password (...

It seems that when the record time gets to a previously recorded track, the screen stops sweeping to the left yet the recording continues for the designated time. There has been some discussion about whether this is a bug or a feature. Officially it is (mostly) a feature. What is happening is that ...

To record sounds that are playing on your computer you need to use "Stereo Mix" OR "WASAPI loopback".
I'm not on Windows, but both methods are described in the manual here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

Assuming that you installed the previous version with default options you can just download the recommended "Audacity 2.0.5 installer "from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows then run the installer with the default options (no need to uninstall the previous version). If you are...

waxcylinder wrote:2) Frequency Smoothing (Hz): Try increasing this a little, typically to around 500 Hz

These days I tend to leave it at around 300 Hz unless I hear tinkly artefacts, in which case I'll try pushing it up to around 500.