Audacity Forum

First the good news: Audio on Linux has matured considerably over the last few years. Most users find that PulseAudio now works reliably out of the box, and Jack is generally much easier to set up than previously. It is even possible to get Jack and Pulse to play nicely with each other, giving the b...

Thank you, Steve, this is a big help. I want to clarify a couple of things. No problem, but first let's clarify about "lossless". Strictly speaking "lossless" means that the conversion is "perfect" - no loss of quality at all. In real life, hardly anything is "per...

I guess this code here looks far better than my first one: Adapting your code for a more conventional AM effect: ; example settings: (setq freq 2) (setq mix 0.5) (setq phl 0) (setq phr 180) ;; Generate modulation wave. (defun mod-wave (hz mix ph) (let ((modulation (hzosc hz *sine-table* ph)) (wet (...

(setf *float-format* "%.2f") (Format t "Time (s)tPeak (dBFS)tRms (dBFS)n") (do* ((sr (truncate *sound-srate*)) (ti 0 (1+ ti)) (pks (snd-samples (linear-to-db (snd-avg s sr sr 2)) ny:all)) (rms (snd-samples (linear-to-db (snd-sqrt (snd-avg (mult s s) sr sr 1))) ny:all))) ((>= ti ...

In a spoken word recording, to amplify a voice that is far away from the mic and almost inaudible, I use the compressor on that piece (default settings, played a bit but did not get far), then reduce the noise such that the level of the background noise matches the rest of the recording. Might it b...

The losses of MP3 and MP4 occur during encoding (rather than decoding). Audacity will always decode MP3 and MP4 the best it can, but some "damage" has already been done by the previous encoding. The default settings in Audacity are to work in 32 bit float format (uncompressed), however due...

(setf *float-format* "%.2f") (Format t "Time (s)tPeak (dBFS)tRms (dBFS)n") (do* ((sr (truncate *sound-srate*)) (ti 0 (1+ ti)) (pks (snd-samples (linear-to-db (snd-avg s sr sr 2)) ny:all)) (rms (snd-samples (linear-to-db (snd-avg s sr sr 1)) ny:all))) ((>= ti (1- (get-duration 1)...

What file format are you trying to export as? (including number of channels and sample rate).
Where are you trying to export it to?
Does the full 8 hours play correctly in Audacity?

Do you use a microphone in half-life? (I've never played the game)
If you do, then the game may well be trying to select the microphone as the sound card input, which will conflict with you attempting to set "What U Hear" as the input.

I've successfully created and exported a surround sound FLAC file. Terrific. :D It would be really useful if the channels were labeled as Front Left, Centre, Front Right, Surround Left, Surround Right, LFE etc. In the meantime - is there a handy guide to which channel is which? Unfortunately it is ...