Audacity Forum

For implementation details, please refer to Spectrum.cpp in the source code http://code.google.com/p/audacity/sourc ... ectrum.cpp

I don't see why Audacity should not be able to do better here. If we really cannot edit when audio is paused, then why cannot Pause then delete a selection stop the stream but keep it armed at the pause point (so faking a Pause)? Something along those lines looks possible. The problem with applying...

But, um... well, to be frank, none of us use Audacity because of its pretty interface. :-D ;) You mean as opposed that that "garish" yellow-on-gray that we currently have? We experimented with many text colours - the problem was to find one that would show up reasonably well against eithe...

Untzboy wrote:Furthermore, my laptop can pick up audio just fine from any other source.

Such as what? As a test, do you have an MP3 player or CD player that you can plug into the laptop's microphone input (preferably using the same cable to plug into the mic input)?

Reinstalling Audacity will make no difference unless you also tell the installation to reset preferences . It is possible that an automatic update may have broken the "Stereo Mix" option. If this has happened and you don't have a restore point then you would need to check the sound card dr...

By the way is the windowing follow Welch rule with 50% overlapping ? (ie. 512 overlap between consecutive windows)? I think that it is (but not for "Rectangular" window.) Do you mean also that the spectrum 20*Log10[PeriodogramArray[data,4096,2048,BlackmanHarrisWindow]] is shifted such tha...

Was there an error message or warning when you opened the project?

This is the format information (as reported by MediaInfo ): General Complete name : /home/steve/Desktop/Good Morning.wav Format : Wave File size : 46.6 KiB Duration : 2s 976ms Overall bit rate : 128 Kbps Audio ID : 0 Format : ADPCM Format profile : U-Law Codec ID : 7 Codec ID/Hint : CCITT Duration :...

When i play the mp3 file, i'm not hearing audio Do you hear audio if you play the MP3 in your usual media player? If not, then either audio playback is not working on your computer (test by playing a "known to be good audio file), or the MP3 is faulty. If you install the optional "ffMpeg&...

The peak amplitude is normalized such that a 0 dB sine wave will show (approximately) 0 dB.