Audacity Forum

If you have access to a Mac or iTunes for Windows, you can sometimes get a better compression in iTunes than we can do in Audacity. Apple supplies an actual Fraunhofer MP3 license. Are there any ABX tests supporting that claim? I've tested many MP3 encoders and in my opinion LAME is, overall, one o...

Exported the selection of 14 mins with a BR of 96 & got a file of 10 Mb which I appreciate is good, it's not only "good" it is also "correct". If the bit rate is constant 96 kbps (96 kbps CBR) then that means that for every 1 second of audio there are 96 kbits of data. 14 mi...

I don't know how often it would be used, but there are some use cases for region labels in the Regular Interval Labels tool. An Example: You have a 12 hour "on location" recording of clock chimes every 15 minutes. You want to trim down the recording by deleting 14 minutes from between each...

a generic plug-in to (for example) delete five specific ranges in a selection. Assuming that you mean for deleting a specified size at regular intervals, it could be achieved by adding a "Labeled region length" control to the "Regular Interval Labels" tool. The labelled regions ...

I actually only see two cases: A couple more cases: If you want to use "Regular Interval Labels" before you have recorded or imported anything, then you will need to create a track so that you can select the desired duration. If you want to generate a tone into an empty project with a sta...

why would I want to explicitly add one by selecting Tracks > Add New from the menu? There are many cases where a user might want to do so. Examples: You may have 2 or more "takes" and want to make one good take with the best parts of each track. If you wish to generate audio into a stereo...

This project is for science fair. My science fair hypothesis is the effect of the diameter of a microphone on the amount of static, or noise interference it has. I've already bought different microphones based on their diameters. The problem is that the noise from the microphone will be much less t...

Is it commonplace now to detect all the MIDI notes in a polyphonic piece such as a recording of Beethoven's "Eroica"? Not at all commonplace. It is still a very challenging task. tONaRT has been surprisingly successful so far in guessing the tonality in the few polyphonic pieces I've trie...

for my project I'm trying to find out how much static, or noise intereference, or whatever a microphone contains using audacity. I think we've answered that one - microphones have extremely low self noise. Background hiss in a recording is in the main a product of the microphone pre-amp. Measuring ...

a generic plug-in to (for example) delete five specific ranges in a selection. That would be possible, but unless wanted as a batch effect it would probably be as quick to simply select each region by eye and delete. With a little practice looking at waveforms, adverts can often be spotted quite ea...