Audacity Forum

Could you post a short sample in WAV or FLAC format - the compression on YouTube does too much damage to see what is going on. There is an "upload attachment" link below the message composing box.

It's like the bass and treble controls on an amp. The frequencies are pre-set. If you want more bass, push up the bass control . If you want less bass, pull it down. Same for treble. The "Gain" control is like the "volume" control on an amp. If you need finer control than this, t...

This came up once before on the forum. Audacity is now more accurate than the old 1.2.x version, but the greatest precision in the Selection Toolbar is in "samples" rather than fractions of a second. The other teacher thought it was a bit too complicated to require that the students divide...

I think that you are probably looking for the "Envelope Tool": http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/envelope_tool.html

There is also an "Adjustable Fade" effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/ad ... _fade.html

The manual is included in the standard Windows "installer" version.
It has been left out of the ZIP version so as to make that download a lot smaller.

It appears to be a component for Foobar2000, but on their free downloads page it says:
"This version has an expiration date set to 31 August 2011"

Cassettes for home recording are usually marked as "C60" or "C90" or similar. The number refers to the total playing time in minutes. Commercial pre-recorded cassette sometimes have track times listed, but even if they don't it is very rare for a pre-recorded cassette to be over ...

Which version of Audacity are you currently using (Look in "Help > About Audacity")
Let us know what happens after you reboot.

Please try to make the post title relevant to your question.

To turn off dither:
Edit > Preferences > Quality.

You'll need the tagged release: http://code.google.com/p/audacity/sourc ... src%2Ftags