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The phrase that pays: "Punch Copy Paste" Copy a big chunk of sound from a long track. Select a shorter portion of a second track and Paste, but the paste cuts to the length of the second track selection. The length of the second track doesn't change. Also works the other way round: Copy a ...

There's also the "Channel Mixer" Nyquist plug-in: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqu ... nnel_Mixer

Instructions for installing Nyquist plug-ins: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... st_install

That's strange. Perhaps a USB thing? Check your power saving settings and ensure that everything is set to "full power" when plugged into the mains.

When I try to highlight one track the other track shows ghosted clocks That is "Sync-Lock". Turn that off in the "Tracks" menu. (more info: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sync_locked_track_groups.html) when highlighting for edit the color is grey blue not white That sounds ...

Ensure that the USB cassette is connected before launching Audacity. Ensure that Window Preferences give Audacity permission to use the "microphone" (Bill G refers to all recording devices as "microphone"). If still no joy, check in the Windows Sound control panel and ensure that...

To adjust the maximum length that will be played, adjust the numbers in the "EXTRACT-ABS" command. The first number is the start time and should remain as zero, the second number is the end time and can be anything you like, but remember the sound cannot be stopped or paused. Example: for ...

Do we have an Audacity problem? Or Zoom? Neither. Zoom is doing exactly what it was designed to do - it is taking exclusive control of the sound system (locking out all other audio apps) to provide reliable performance of the Zoom meeting. This is why Zoom provide a recording feature in their softw...

When using ALSA directly it is important to ensure that no other apps are using the audio device because ALSA is (almost always) a single client device. PulseAudio is intended to overcome that limitation by providing a multi-client audio interface for apps to use.

My guess is that the MP3 is "variable bit rate" ("VBR"). Several audio players on Windows (including Windows Media Player the last time I looked) report the length of VBR MP3s incorrectly. This is a bug in the player and it has been around for many years. More information about M...

Try this: Frequency-Listener.ny This is the code: ;nyquist plug-in ;version 4 ;type process ;name "Frequency listener" ;copyright "Released under terms of the GNU General Public License version 2" (cond ((get '*selection* 'center-hz) (play (extract-abs 0 1 (mult 0.5 (hzosc (get '...