Audacity Forum

mrvanes wrote:that's the least of my worries and totally unnoticable in the garbage that's generated afterwards.

What "garbage" is that?

Does that output all occur when you launch Audacity, or does some of it occur only when Audacity freezes/crashes?

What options do you have in the Device Toolbar playback options?

The "quality improvement" patch is in SVN. The most obvious improvement: If you apply the Sliding Time/Scale Pitch Shift effect to a section of a sine tone (e.g. create a sine tone 10 seconds long then select from 2.0 seconds to 6.0 seconds and apply the effect) the old version would have ...

I think Audacity is an audio editor (please correct me if I this this wrong), so the built-in effects should be audio related only Yes Audacity is described as an "audio" application ( Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds ) but it is als...

roy windmill wrote:Each one has the Media Player logo,the name of the track, and WAV

So you mean (for example) "Biggles brass band.wav" ?
If so, then in this example "Biggles brass band" is the file name and ".wav" is the file extension.

If you record with a single microphone, or a single plugged in guitar, or any other "single channel" input, the recording is "mono". That's what "mono" means - there is only one audio channel. A mono recording may be on a single (mono) track, or it may be duplicated so ...

Why "Don't Normalize" isn't sensicle (lovely word Edgar :D) Let's say that you don't want to compress the dynamics. Which is more sensical? A) Apply the Compression effect and select "Do not compress". B) Don't apply the Compression effect. Let's say that you don't want to norma...

If you record a mono track it will come out of both speakers, just like if you play a mono radio station on a stereo radio.

Try using a higher MP3 quality setting. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/MP3_Export_Options

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Playback#usb