Audacity Forum

One sure way to dig a hole with Audacity's face is to unplug the USB or Firewire cable when Audacity is standing on it. I have a mental picture of Mr Audacity standing on a rug with "S/PDIF" written on it, and someone giving the rug a sharp tug. Mr Audacity falls over. It seems like that ...

Gale Andrews wrote:You can install an optional "Chris' Compressor" as a Nyquist plug-in which may be simpler to use.

I rarely use it myself, but Chris's dynamic compressor gets a lot of recommendations by users on this forum for this type of job.

I can't think of any obvious reason why this has happened, but there is one option that we can rule out immediately. Audacity does not understand speech. There is no way that Audacity can get a track name from the audio data. This does not tell us much, but it does tell us that Audacity must be gett...

I saved an interview as an aup file onto my desktop. This is the crucial issue. Audacity does not save projects as aup files. Audacity saves Audacity Projects , and an Audacity Project is made up of: A file with the file extension .AUP and audio data . I still have the data file, When you record so...

Yes that is normal. The spectrum plot (both the graphic and the export data) are normalized such that a 0 dB sine wave at a frequency that lies in the centre of a an FFT frequency band will read as 0 dB. (try generating a tone at 516.8 Hz). The graphic spectrum plot is limited by the pixel size. Ver...

You have a huge mismatch between one of the output levels and one of the input levels.
Are you sure that the computer input is a "line" input and not a "Mic" input?

cindylu wrote:My settings are MME/Digital Output Device (HDMI)

The device toolbar has four boxes. What options do you have selected in each box?

Reinstalling rarely solves problems in Audacity (I've not yet come across a single case where it did so). For some issues, reinstalling and resetting preferences may fix problems. The Windows installer includes an option to reset preferences. I was creating a song, it was about 3 minutes long when i...

Please could you give step by step instructions of how to reproduce the problem.

Audacity does not support video. I would suggest that you record each "comment" (may be as little as a gasp, or may be a full paragraph of text) as separate files. You can then drop each "comment" into the appropriate place in your video editor program. You may find it convenient...