Audacity Forum

Hi Steve It's me again, I wrote you one more message but I'm not sure you received For new forum members posts go into a "moderation queue" so they do not appear immediately - this has become a necessary measure to prevent the forum from being flooded with spam. tell me please from where ...

The message means that Audacity is trying to open the recording device that is selected in the Device Toolbar but is unable to do so. For a USB mic you need to select the USB option as the recording device and your normal sound card as the playback device. Check what options are selected and what ot...

Repeat the process, but with the USB mixer selected as the "Default device" from the drop-down list in the "Sound Recording" panel.
Does that have a "Stereo Mix" option?

The beeps are about 195 ms apart.
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Having read the manual for Audacity, I learned that using the internal sound card (a sigma tel ) would prove impossible because it would NOT allow me to select "sigma tel" in the input device drop down window of Audacity. The ability to record what is playing on the computer using the on-...

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I agree that allowing a specified amount of silence before stopping would be a useful feature for 'Sound activated recording'. It would also be useful if 'Sound activated recording' buffered the audio input so that, in effect, it starts recording just before the sound is detected. This would avoid m...

Paddy Landau wrote:How do I mark this thread as solved?

Done.

Audacity can go beyond +/- 1.0, but FLAC can't. You can zoom out to a vertical range of +2.0 to -2.0 by right-clicking on the vertical ruler near the left end of the audio track. Left click to zoom in vertically. The reason that FLAC (and most other audio file formats) can't go beyond +/- 1.0 is tha...

I also converted to mono.
Here's the result: