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If you record a stereo track, you should be able to see two channels in the recorded track like this:



Is there a wiggly waveform in both left and right channels?

Select a section that you want to export, then use "File menu > Export Selection".

mandalions9 wrote:I want to put a horizontal line at 1 kHz and be able to monitor a recording in live time with the line still there). Is this possible?

No, but you can zoom in vertically on the track by clicking on the vertical scale:

I think that it is the looping within the snd-fetch-array that bombs out rather than the array size itself (in much the same way as my previous example). It's not that you "can't" have very large arrays, you can, but you need to be careful how you use them. An alternative way of writing th...

I usually record online streaming club music If you record it as an uncompressed file type (compete with file header) then you could use the "Read uncompressed audio files directly from the original (faster)" import option. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/import_export_preferences.ht...

Did you remember that Audacity only appears in pavucontrol while it is actually playing / recording / paused ?
Do you have a "pulse" option in the Device Toolbar? http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Device_Toolbar

To record sounds playing on the computer you will need to select "Stereo Mix" as the recording input and not "Integrated Microphone Array".
Also, the recording level will be affected by the playback level as it is in effect recording the sound card output.

Audacity shouldn't crash just because of that Yes, off topic, but a brief answer: It's because the build of Audacity that I have uses libsamplerate as the resampling library rather than the default libresample (my choice as I built Audacity from the source code). libsamplerate supports only resampl...

it doesn't say anywhere what frequency to use or the amplitude. Do you have any tips? The claims for brainwave entrainment are not scientifically substantiated. I try to keep an open mind about such things. There is some information about brainwave entrainment on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/...

On Windows, I found two more behaviours to note with filelist.txt import. Unfortunately there is no international standard for alphanumeric order, so inconsistencies can and do occur. Nyquist uses "character by character" alphanumeric ordering (as does Windows 2000) while Windows XP and l...