Audacity Forum

There really is very little sound quality difference between 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz sample rates. For the perfectionist there are marginal benefits to using one or the other, depending on what you are doing and what equipment you are using. If you're using MP3 files as your "source material",...

Probably best to leave Sound Activated Recording off (disabled).

Some sound cards have their own control panel. In some cases the sound card's control panel will override the Windows Sounds settings. Have a look in the Windows Control Panel ("Classic View" is easiest, if Windows still has that) and look to see if you can find a utility for controlling/c...

Sorry, I've not used either Qwt or wxMathPlot and my programming skills are rudimentary. You may do better asking on the Qwt and/or wxMathPlot forums.

This has come up a few times on the Audacity4Blind mailing list, so I thought I'd write a plug-in for it. The issue is to show the peak amplitude of a track. There is a "trick" for getting the peak amplitude using the Amplify effect, but it would probably be easier to just have a tool in t...

Is the file I want 1st, the file I want to 'clip' a piece from? You said that you had two files that you wanted to "stitch together" end to end. You didn't say that you wanted to "clip a piece" (whatever that means). We can only give instructions for what you say you want to do....

From a Google search it looks like Qwt includes an oscilloscope in the official examples.

Leave Skype off and not automatically starting up (you can manually start it when you need it and shut it down again when your finished). It sounds like this has helped a bit, though not enough. Try making a recording with the Task Manager open, and keep an eye on CPU usage and Disk Access. If eithe...

The audio is badly distorted because the recording level is way too high. It cannot be fixed, you will need to record it again. If you recorded that in Audacity you need to aim for a maximum peak recording level of around -6 dB (half the track height). For future reference, instructions for how to a...

If you are on Linux, you're still faced with the wrong wxWidgets version and possibly also the failure of one of the libraries to get copied out of its temporary location into its appropriate permanent location. Steve (one of the elves on this board) can help you with compiling Linux. If you're on ...