Audacity Forum

essoss wrote:As for the Audio cache tip, thanks, I'll give that a try, though I am using version 2.0.2

Audacity 2.0.2 does not have the audio cache feature (which is why Gale specified "2.0.1 or earlier").

The cable is connected from the cassette player to the computer What sort of cable is that? Where exactly is the cable plugged into the computer ("Line input" on the back of the Desktop computer", "Mic Input on the side of a laptop computer", "USB input on the front of...

Cinmay2000 wrote:when I import the Mozart track (in wav format)

How are you ding that? "File menu > Import > Audio.." ?
If you are doing it that way and the WAV file imports as mono, then the WAV file is mono.
"Right click on the file > Properties" should confirm what the file format is.

You need LAME to export MP3 files: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... g-Ins#lame
You need FFMpeg to export AMR (narrow band) files: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... Ins#ffdown

Remove the tick from "Snap To" in the Selection Toolbar (near the bottom of the main Audacity window.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... .A8res_.3F

The vocal remover is vocalremover.ny which you will find in the Audacity plug-ins folder. On Linux, the "plug-ins" folder is in usr/share/audacity if you installed an Audacity package supplied by your distribution (Ubuntu), or usr/local/share/audacity if you compiled Audacity from source c...

The "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" effect can progressively speed up the audio, but note: 1) It will be very difficult to bring the speed to exactly where it should be 2) This effect is slow. 3) Waxcylinder's suggestion ( "rewinding the tapes from end-to-end a couple of times firs...

The problem loading some VST effects is known about and the issue is mentioned in the release notes (included with every Audacity download and on Windows is displayed during the installation: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.0.2#Program_Launch (highlighting by me) (Windows and OS X)...

Audacity will automatically add the .mp3 extension if you just enter the file name (provided that the file name does not contain any dots).

Did you get an error message or warning when trying to export as MP3?
What exactly (step by step) did you do, and what happened?

People say that sample wise processing is slow with Nyquist. Looping through a sound sample by sample tends to be slow, though it can be made a lot faster by creating an object for doing DSP. Also, a lot can be done working with "sounds" rather than working sample by sample - it depends w...