Audacity Forum

The standard tools in Audacity do not support batch processing across multiple folders. It may be possible to write a Nyquist script (Nyquist is a programming language for audio that is built into Audacity), or you could write a BAT script to run a batch process with SoX . I don't know of any graphi...

It seems to be working now. But now I can't hear the audio from the computer I can only hear the audio from the cassette player while it is recording. I can only hear the audio audacity when I replay the audio not while it is recording. In order to hear the recording on the computer while it is rec...

If I understand your question correctly, you would need to split the recording into lots of frequency bands, then mute the loud bits in each frequency band, then mix the frequency bands back together.

Check the USB lead. Try using a different USB socket on the computer (it may be necessary to completely power off the computer and reboot). Ensure that the USB device is connected and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity. Avoid using other programs while recording - if CPU usage goes too h...

If the peaks are visibly much higher than the rest, then you could try using a "limiter" to stop the peaks going so high. There is a limiter plug-in available here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=150498#p150498 Instructions for installing: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/D...

Make-up-gain is a very common name for the post-compressing normalisation. It simply means that the effect "makes up" for the loss by the compression ratio but NOT in the case of the Audacity Compressor effect. "Make-up gain" usually, as you say, makes up for the reduction in le...

Is there any way to select only the specific ASIO inputs I want to record (ie. Inputs 11,12,13,20,22,24,26)? Currently no, but you asked at a good time because there is someone working on this and they have produced an experimental patch toward providing this functionality. I'm not sure how patches...

Question: what is the size of the RMS measuring window? It appears to be a 100 sample square window. Some additional information about the algorithm: The compressor creates an "envelope" that follows the peaks of the signal (or rms signal), and then applies gain according to the level of ...

You've not said which "GNU/Linux/Unix-like" OS you are using, but Audacity is available in the repositories for most Linux distributions, so just installing with the package manager is usually the easiest option.

Does it work if you generate a tone (Generate menu) and then amplify that?
Does it work with other audio files?
How big is the file that you are having the problem with?
Have you changed any of the default Audacity settings?
When you say that you rebuilt the computer - is this a fresh install of XP?