Audacity Forum

I'm just wondering - is this rate of decay intended to be the rate of change in rms level or in peak level?

All you need to do to make a "portable" Audacity for Windows is to download and extract the ZIP version from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/windows Then create an empty folder in the same directory as the audacity.exe file, and name that folder Portable Settings . More information ...

The Audacity Noise Removal effect often gets criticised because it's not very good at doing miracles ;) What the Audacity Noise Removal is pretty good at, is reducing quiet, constant, background noise, such as gentle hiss or hums. It can perform this task very well and leave the remaining audio soun...

Congratulations from me too :) You need to be careful using linear-to-db with sounds because dB is a log and the logarithm of numbers <= 0 is not defined, so if the selection being analysed contains absolute silence you will get a "NAN" error (Not A Number). You can protect against that wi...

Check that the MP3 file is correct before you close the project. If you think there is a chance that you may want to re-edit the file, and/or create another MP3 with a different bit rate you should either save the project or export a (high quality) WAV file in addition to the MP3. When you are sure ...

guitarist321 wrote:I have 5 songs which I did fade ins and outs as a mix, on 1 stereo track, and some songs are louder or lower than the others. What is the best tool to use to even out the volumes?

Probably the Envelope Tool http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/envelope_tool.html

Try this (logged in with your daughter's account):

1) Open Audacity
2) "File menu > Save As" and save the project anywhere convenient within her home folder.
3) Record something.
4) Try editing it.

Do you still get the problem?

Click and drag with your mouse along the waveform:

The current "Project Series" USB Phono Plus provides monitoring of the phono input, or the computer output or both via the headphone socket (switchable from the from panel with a separate monitor level control). The RCA outputs are direct from the phono input which allows the unit to be us...

Al Moon wrote:Tried it again, same problem. Says it is not a valid win32 application.

What is the full (exact) error message?