Audacity Forum

There is a concise guide to the proper way to indent Lisp code here: Indenting Common Lisp A few, hopefully useful, examples: ;; Line up the bindings in LET special form (let* ((symbols (mapcar #'compute-symbol l)) (spaces (mapcar #'compute-space symbols (cdr symbols)))) (when (verify-spacing symbo...

As it is likely that Nyquist plug-ins will be available in Chains in the very near future As of Audacity 2.0.1 Nyquist "process" effects are available in Chains. For effects that are likely to be used on a single file it is often helpful, in the event of invalid user input, to cancel proc...

do you think what I have probably aren't really .au files Audacity data files (.au) are up to 1 MB in size, so they are not valid Audacity data files. any idea what the "Testing..." audio preview is all about? You mean in the "Finder" thing? Sorry, I'm not a Mac user so I don't ...

Thanks for the extra info. I've still not reproduced the crash, but one thought has occurred to me. When "Read Directly" is selected, there are a few moments while diagonal shading is displayed before the proper waveform. Do you wait for the the full (proper) waveform to be displayed or do...

We are unable to reproduce the problem. Was the track mono or stereo? What was the sample rate and sample format? Where did the track come from? Was it a recording or an imported file? (I presume that it was an imported WAV file?) If the file was imported (as I guess it was), did you use the "c...

Audacity currently supports FFMpeg versions 0.5 through 0.8 (inclusive). "On Demand" loading with FFMpeg has recently been added to Audacity, which it has since been discovered causes the error that you describe when building with the "--without-ffmpeg" option. The developers are...

iOS does not support Audacity.

Have you looked at the link on the main Audacity (Linux) download page? http://audacityteam.org/download/linux

I've added a sensible title for this topic. Go into the Audacity Preferences (under the Audacity Menu) and check in the "Effects" section that "Nyquist" is enabled. If it isn't, enable (select) that option and restart Audacity. If that is not the problem, check the installation i...

Some laptops come with "Power Profile" settings. (Toshiba laptops do, I think that Dell may do also). "Power Profiles" provide an easy way to set all of the power/sleep/screen brightness/... settings in a couple of clicks. You want to play a DVD? - Select the "DVD" prof...