Audacity Forum

You might be able to open two instances of Audacity and record from one USB mic with each copy. (I've never tried that.) No that won't work. Although it is possible to open multiple projects at the same time (in separate windows), there can only be one actual "instance" of Audacity runnin...

First of all all the old tracks loaded play. I copied another old MP3 track from the computer and loaded it and it plays fine. That's good news. Could it be the 2.0.5 version? I wouldn't have thought so. If you could send a couple of files via a free file sharing site (such as dropbox or sendspace)...

Isnt this going to be a mismatch? Very likely. If the "mic" input really is a "mic" input, then definitely a bad mismatch, and probably mono to boot. On some laptops the "mic" input is actually a dual function "mono microphone" / "stereo line level"...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/m/images/6/64/specify_mp3_options_basic7.png "Constant" (selected above) is "CBR" (Constant Bit Rate) "Average" is "ABR" (Average Bit Rate) "Variable" is "VBR" (Variable Bit Rate) The "Presets" ar...

In the current (2.0.5) version, "Delete" has been put into a sub-menu:
"Edit > Remove Audio or Labels > Delete"

(When Audacity 2.0.6 comes out, "Delete" will be back in the main Edit menu)

MichloIW wrote:the lowest being "whispering in a library"

Have you tried it in a library?
I'm sure that the main library in the city where I live is much louder than is usually quoted.

That's FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown

Plansguy1 wrote:Thanks. I found a solution. Just for the heck of it, when Audacity asked me for the lame_enc.dll file, I just tried one of the other .dll files and it worked!

Really
What dll did you select?

In that case, please consider "Rename Project" without re-saving all the data a feature request. Won't that leave you with an AUP file (the original saved project) with no data? Incidentally, if there's a place to post batch scripts for using SoX to quickly and easily assemble a variety o...

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