Audacity Forum

Short answer: No you can't open Plot Spectrum from the command line.
Longer answer: There is an experimental "Script-Pipe" module: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Scripting
There is also a command line audio program called SoX that may be of interest: http://sox.sourceforge.net/

albshore wrote:I asked a question before. on how to stop my cue up song from being recorded.

You're asking the wrong people if you're asking us about Serato. None of the regular crew on this forum use Serato, so while we'd love to be able to help we probably can't. Have you tried asking on the Serato forum?

You need to hear what through your headphones?
What are you trying to record?
Are you using a microphone? If so, what sort and how is it connected to your computer?

KristinL wrote: "AU Peak Limiter" in my Effects menu...

That's a Mac effect. I don't have a Mac so I've no idea about that effect.
Have a go with the "NEW VERSION brickwall.ny" from the page that I linked to.

Listen to the media with headphones.

If you're making a standard audio CD, you don't need to convert to MP3, in fact it is best not to. MP3 is a "lossy compression" format, which means that some of the audio data is thrown away to make the file size smaller (which reduces the sound quality). For making a CD it's much better t...

I tried all of the tutorials on audacity tutorials but none of it works.. Then it probably can't be done (sorry :() There are some suggestions here about how to go about the task, but note that it stresses that in many cases it is not possible to separate vocals from background music. http://wiki.a...

Because pasting in the middle of a track does not create a separate clip, hence there are no black vertical split lines. But if you paste at the end of a track, that paste is regarded as a separate clip and that clip's border with the existing audio is then shown by a split line. Though it is possi...

At this point I have to ask: what is the point to deleting the audio files and leaving the project file and folder laying around? I can't comment on "Audio Logic", which I assume is some sort of audio editor, as I've not heard of it before, but in response to your question: Let's say that...

Is this a laptop PC or full size?
Are you trying to get the sound card to recognise an external microphone that you have plugged in, or a built in microphone in the computer?