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If you zoom in really close on the waveform so that you can see the individual peaks, there may be a hint as to where the problem is occurring. If the peaks are cut off absolutely flat, then it is almost certainly "digital" clipping and so occurring after the A/D converter. If the peaks ar...

I figured out if I select a section that only has the crash symbol playing I can use the Noise Reduction effect to get the result I want and you are able to do that without the result sounding horrible? if there is a way to tell the program to perform a Noise Reduction every OTHER time the sound fr...

I've no idea why you should be having so much trouble (unless perhaps the CD is scratched or something). Programs like CDEX and EAC should have no problem ripping a CD accurately and VLC, foobar2000 and such like should have no problem playing the ripped WAV files, but since you are having this prob...

Applications: SoX Platform: Linux Scripting language: Bash I originally wrote this for someone that wanted to change the sample rate of their entire music collection from 192 kHz to 48 kHz FLAC format (http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=72838) but it could be easily adapted for o...

For Audacity I'll leave it there for now if no DRC routine (that is dynamic range compression) of a WAV or MP3 is available. This is Audacity's built-in dynamic range compressor: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/compressor.html There are also several optional plug-ins for Audacity that perform ...

I think this is what you want, but note that I am not a bash expert so use at your own risk. Note also that this script must run in Bash and not in Dash. Giving in a .sh extension, making it executable and then double clicking on the script file should work but if not run it from the command line wi...

What do you have set as the output (playback) device in the Device Toolbar?
If you import a "known to be good" audio file into Audacity and play it, can you hear it?
Is there a visible waveform (wiggly blue shape) in the track that you record?

A bit of explanation about how the Noise Removal effect works. When dealing with a good recording (the background noise is pretty quiet), the noise is only really noticeable when the sound level is very low. When the signal level (music) is houder (louder) it masks (covers up) the sound of the noise...

I'd probably go a little less aggressive on the noise removal - put up with a bit of hiss and avoid the swooshing sound.

You will probably find the "Getting Started" section in the manual useful: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/quick_help.html