Audacity Forum

The links on the Audacity wiki are now working again.

All the answers in one post: Is it OK to "open with" Audacity in Explorer, That will probably work, but the recommended ways to import a file into Audacity are either of these two ways: 1. Launch Audacity, then "File menu > Import > Audio" or 2. Launch Audacity, then drag and dro...

Here's the plug-in that you wanted: BITONE2.NY Note that this is a very old plug-in, but as far as I'm aware it should still work with modern versions of Audacity. and here is the original documentation for the plug-in: BITONE2.TXT I've not yet been able to upload these to the Audacity wiki as the S...

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/legacy-mac/

MacOS 10.07 (Lion) to 10.12 (Sierra) are no longer officially supported, but are believed to work with the latest Audacity version.

There's recently been some maintenance work on the server and it appears that some links got broken in the process. I'll need to locate the original file so that I can fix the link. This may take some time. I'll post back here when it's fixed (probably tomorrow).

Normally you should connect the USB interface before launching Audacity.
If Audacity is launched first, you will need to "Rescan Audio Devices" after connecting the interface (in the "Transport" menu).

The "Spectral Delete" effect was added quite recently. Audacity 2.2.1 is too old. The current version of Audacity is 2.4.2 which is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ If "Spectral Selection" (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spectral...

See this post: viewtopic.php?p=391012#p391012

Montague wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:02 pm

under preferences it says Lame-3 is "built in"

In recent versions of Audacity, LAME is built in. It does not need to be downloaded separately.

Voip software such as Zoom and Skype take control of the sound card, and that gets in the way of Audacity. The easiest solution is to use Zoom's built-in recorder. For Skype there is a 3rd party app called "Pamela" - last time I looked there was a feature limited free version of Pamela. Au...