Audacity Forum

>porridge< wrote:I must have got confused switching back and forth couple of times.

No problem - it's really easy to get confused when switching between different versions and different preferences. I've done the same myself many times

If you want to make it play faster, use the Change Speed or Change Tempo effects.

MP3 is a "lossy" format - there is always some loss of sound quality when converted to MP3 format (also applies to other lossy compression formats such as Ogg, WMA, AC3 and so on). For best quality, don't use MP3, keep to a lossless format such as WAV or FLAC. If you must use MP3, try usin...

I can reproduce your results, but I think your analysis of the "problem" is incorrect. The Audacity 2.0.3 version is more accurate than the 1.3.12 version. You can prove this by resampling the high sample rate original down to 11025 and then back up to 96 kHz and comparing the spectrum wit...

The recording level is too low. Best to aim for a level that shows a waveform that is about half the height of a track. The "gargling" noise is because the data is not getting from the input through to the hard drive fast enough, so little bits of data are being lost. There are two approac...

There are some tips about noise removal here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Removal

Can anyone walk me through the initial steps of getting an imported file to playback If it is a supported file type: File menu > Import > Audio Wait for the file to load, then click the Play button. If the file type is not automatically recognised then we need to know what sort of file it is so tha...

Thanks, but you've posted a .AUP file. We can't do anything with that as it is not an audio file, it is just one part of an Audacity Project.

This article explains about Audacity Projects and how to create normal audio files: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/au ... jects.html

Make a note of your current sound system settings and then try selecting "DirectSound" as "host" in the Device Toolbar and enabling both "Exclusive Mode" boxes in Windows "Sound". This should give Audacity access to the audio data directly, without intermediat...

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