Audacity Forum

For YouTube, the easiest, quickest and best quality way is to download the video. There are several free plug-ins available for Firefox web browser for downloading from YouTube. If you have FFmpeg installed, then by "Importing" the downloaded video into Audacity, the audio part will be ext...

Check in the Windows Sounds Control Panel that "Stereo Mix" is enabled and the recording level is turned up. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#vistacp Check also what it says the recording format is - you should set the sample rate to the same as Audacity, which is 441...

You have not said what are you trying to record from.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... ng#Vista_7

When you select "Stereo Mix" as the recording input in Audacity and you try to record something, does the red recording meter show any activity at all?

I have no idea why it crashed, only that it happened when i pressed 'stop'. If you are on Vista or Windows 7, that is a known problem and one of the reasons that the 1.2.x series is obsolete (the 1.x series was written before Vista was invented). I would suggest that you make a backup copy of the p...

Thanks for the comments Gale. Given few built-in effects have presets as such and we can assume many users will be unfamiliar with fade shape OK, I can see your point, though I still think that the problem is worse for effects such as Compressor and Noise Reduction. I agree that it is much less of a...

I couldn't post a reply to the video as comments seem to be disabled. The AT-2020 microphone requires "phantom power". Phantom power is a direct current applied through the two signal lines of a balanced audio connector. The third pin of an XLR plug connects to the "shield" of th...

Audacity handles audio data and graphical waveform data separately. With damaged projects it is possible that the waveform data is intact but audio data may still be missing. If you use "Mix and Render" on a track the waveform graphic will be updated and missing data will appear as visible...

I've not tried it myself (I don't have a netbook) so I'm going on what information has been posted on the forum. Audacity can certainly run on some netbooks and if you have Linux installed on the Netbook it should be possible to install Audacity. The main problems that have been reported are that th...

Can this cable work cause i have it. and if it doesn't can you tell me which one works for my microphone No that cable cannot supply phantom power. For phantom power the lead must have 3 connections at each end - the 1/4" jack has only 2 connections so it cannot work for the Audio Technica 202...