Audacity Forum

Responses to forum posts may take a little while as there are no paid staff. Audacity is free, created by and supported by volunteer enthusiasts. My experience of laptop built-in sound cards is that they are [email protected]. They are fine for casual listening of computer beeps, and even for playing music off t...

What was the sound quality like with the laptop (is it a laptop?) mic?

(you may not like this response, but ..) You probably need to get some better loudspeakers. It is extraordinarily difficult to make speakers that do not over accentuate particular frequencies, that's what you pay the money for. If speakers (or headphones) resonate at a particular frequency, then if ...

These steps work on Debian: sudo apt-get install subversion svn checkout http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/ audacity-read-only sudo apt-get build-dep audacity cd audacity-read-only ./configure sudo make install Note however that there is currently a small bug in the svn code that...

The feature does not currently exist in Audacity (I don't remember it being in Cool Edit either, other than moving the "hand" across the bottom scrollbar.)
I'll add your vote on the wiki Features page.

[Update: vote added]

It is necessary to have access to the sample rate of the track audio. This is available as *sound-srate*. I presume that you agree that this is required? As you say, the *default-sound-srate* is a Nyquist global. Unless change in the Nyquist code it will always be a known default value. There may be...

What I normally do is to just press Ctrl+M (then Enter) when I make a mistake, without stopping the recording. This places a label where the mistake occurred so that I can go back and fix it later. The shortcut keys can be customised, but you need to be careful as there are so many keyboard shortcut...

A feature that I frequently use is to highlight the approximate region, then hover the mouse pointer (don't click) and press the "B" key. Playback then occurs between the mouse pointer position (at the time that the B key was pressed) and the nearest end of the selection. No need to stop b...

All we have is on that page.

Does this feature request sum up what you're asking for? Drag cursor back and forth across a particular point and hear the audio as a function of the direction and speed of the cursor. Allows to zero in on the beginning of a plosive syllable or other distinctive sound as an edit point. Precisely ana...