Audacity Forum

I thought the problem might be with bluetooth.
I completely disabled bluetooth on my machine as I don't use it, and Audacity then launched significantly more quickly, but as you use bluetooth that is not an option for you.

In the sound device settings the level is set to 100. Try turning that down and see if it helps. With thousands of different sound cards it is not possible to give a "one size fits all" solution. It is often necessary for users to experiment with different settings to see what works best....

I have received confirmation from the OP that in fact the much earlier suggestion by Gale Andrews does in fact work. DTS can be converted to standard 5.1 WAV format in Foobar2000. The crux of the problem discussed is that the channel order (channel mapping) for 5.1 DTS is different to that for 5.1 W...

"A-weighted RMS" is most commonly used for comparing audio signal noise levels.

When you are recording, open PulseAudio Volume Control and go to the Recording tab.
What input does it say Audacity is using?

Open Audacity, create a mono audio track and select it. Then from the Effect menu choose "Nyquist Prompt". Copy and paste the following code into the Nyquist Prompt text box and click the "Debug" button. What happens? (print s) (setf test "1 2 3") (print (read-line (mak...

Audacity takes about 23 seconds to start. That does seem quite a lot even for Ubuntu. I started Audacity from a terminal and the text is as follows: While it was doing that, did it appear to pause for a long time at a particular point, or did it complete all of that quickly and then pause before la...

The error message prompts you to either used the Time Shift key or F5 on the keyboard to drag the track where it would be visible. As you have discovered, that will not help. That error was triggered because the recording failed after perhaps recording a tiny fraction of a second. Of course that is...

That is called a "fade out". First you need to "Select" the audio that you want to "fade". There are several ways to do that. The easiest way if you use a mouse, is to click and drag along the waveform. See here for other ways to select audio: http://manual.audacityteam...

i'm trying to learn how can i mark a start and stop point then select this frame and save it in a new audio file. First you need to "Select" the audio that you want in the new file. There are several ways to do that. The easiest way if you use a mouse, is to click and drag along the wavef...