Audacity Forum

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Editing#snap

what about on Unix/Linux? It seems that there, Audacity uses the same libraries that everyone else uses, rather than custom-built ones. The situation is different on Unix/Linux because Audacity is not distributed as binaries on these platforms. The binary distributions are provided by the distribut...

Launch Audacity on your computer. Click "File" and select "Open" to open up your MP3 file in Audacity. Click "File" and then "Export" once the MP3 file is open. This will open the "Edit Metadata" dialog box. Click "OK" to move to the next ...

Is the noise present in your original recording?
If so, could you post a short clip of a raw (unprocessed) recording in WAV or FLAC format and describe how it was recorded.
If not, at what stage does the noise appear?

USB is not inherently bad, but many inexpensive USB cassette players / turntables seem to have rather low quality components which can cause problems. The Behringer UCA-202 has surprisingly good electronics for the price and is regularly reported to be surprisingly good. The UC-202 is little more th...

Yes Audacity has Gverb, but imho it's not a particularly "good" reverb effect and is not the easiest to use.
There's a page on the wiki about GVerb that you may find helpful. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/GVerb

Big Kev wrote: simply change the name of the 'solo' button to 'monitor' as this is a more descriptive title of what that particular button does?

I'll go for that if it's the best that we can do.
Is it the best that we can do?

Big Kev wrote:...and 4. of course never ever press both 'solo' and 'mute' buttons together - you know it makes sense!!!!

As it is a rainy horrible typical bank holiday in England Agree :D The 'mute' button removes that track from what you are listening to and removes that particular track from the exported track. Agree. The solo button on a track (or multiple tracks) only affects what you are listening to - it does n...

Could you give more information.

Where is the microphone positioned relative to the guitar?
What style of guitar playing? Finger-picking classical guitar?
What sort of computer?
What operating system.