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I guess I'm confused about what Enable Dragging Selection does. "Selection" as in " Selected Audio ". Easiest way is to zoom out sufficiently so that you can select (approximately) the region that you want to loop. Then, zoom in on the ends of the selection and adjust if necessa...

could you please tell me how old is your laptop and what model it is ? It's probably about 5 years old. A generic i7 laptop with SSD + hdd. The build quality is reasonable and it's a good number cruncher (it's very fast for the price, which is what I needed for software development). The fan is qui...

It is impossible to apply effects directly (without first decoding) to MP3 encoded audio other than extremely simple effects such as "amplify" and "fade". It would be good to develop in this direction in the future. That's not a direction that the Audacity developers want to go -...

If that was you playing guitar, you deserve to treat yourself to a decent microphone and something better than a PC sound card to record with. Have you considered recording on a portable digital recorder (a very popular and good quality example being the "Zoom H4n" though there are many ot...

For example, if I wanted to use Wahwah, but make it so the Wahwah Frequency Offset % can be applied -- not as a typical effect, but recorded in an applied and progressive way. Basically, as I moved the slider in the effect box, I could record that and apply it as an effect in itself. To do that pro...

I feel your pain - really. Yes, Audacity's crash recovery is usually very reliable, but computer systems are imperfect. There's a long topic here about a similar issue, and many steps to see if recovery was possible (spoiler - it wasn't): https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=11452...

nyck.nyck1 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:32 am

My microphone is a lapel, should I exchange it for another one?

Lapel mics are prone to low signal and high noise, but can be useful when the mic needs to be inconspicuous (such as video interviews).

What sort of recordings are you doing?

Another one - I've started using "Cookie AutoDelete" browser extension for Firefox. It clears out browser cookies on a regular basis, either after leaving a site, or after restart. To avoid repeated validation challenges, I white list sites that I visit most frequently, and grey list sites...

I would be glad to start a new topic on voice recording quality, but I can't figure out how. For future reference, (it's very easy ;) ) 1. Start from the most relevant forum board - normally that will be the Windows board: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=46 2. Click the "New Top...

Let us know how it goes