Audacity Forum

What's the best way to achieve the same volume output between projects for playback? I presume that you mean that you want equal "loudness" (which is a different issue to "amplitude"). Equal amplitude is easy - just use the Normalize effect. Equal loudness is much harder as it i...

Many playback devices support "playlists" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playlist

To place the cursor, click on the actual audio track and not on the time bar "ruler" above the tracks.

The defaults are best for most purposes (including recording vinyl). If you know for certain what the default (native) sample rate of your audio capture device is, then there may be a very slight benefit in setting the default Audacity sample rate to match, otherwise (assuming that you are going fro...

The software library that handles sample rate conversion has been updated, leading to the new options. The new library provides both better sound quality and faster conversion than the old library. For "Real Time" the recommended setting is "Medium" (pretty good quality and prett...

As described here in the manual http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audacity_projects.html, Audacity work in its own "project" format. In order to create an audio file that can be played or used in other programs you must "Export". If you require MP3 format, then you will also n...

Switch back to the normal Selection tool (F1 key) and click on a track so that the tracks are not selected (not highlighted), then switch back to the Time Shift tool (F5 key) and move the track that you want to move.

Audacity is primarily in C++ with a small amount of C and LISP code. If you are interested in coding for Audacity, a good place to start is to build Audacity from the current svn source code. You will find links to several resources for new Audacity developers here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki...

If the problem persists your hard drive may be wearing out or it may just be too slow to cope with everything, or both. If the drive were "wearing out" then I'd expect other, more serious problems to be occurring, such as file corruption in both data and program files. In the absence of o...

There is a comprehensive anti-virus report for FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe downloaded from http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/ here: http://tiny.cc/55ls7w