Audacity Forum

skyy38 wrote:Sometimes, a direct, outside solution can help:

Not in this case.
You can't cheat the math.
Even at the highest MP3 compression (very low quality) an hour of audio requires about 3.4 MB.
8kbps = 1kB per second
1 hour = 3600 seconds
I hour at 8kbps = 3600000 bytes = (about) 3.4 MB

As far as I recall, the file associations moved over to v2.0 automatically. I think that is what should happen but Windows can misbehave and get confused, so uninstalling 1.3.x first is the safer option. I didn't need to re-install either LAME or FFmpeg - these were picked up automatically by v2.0....

would like everything in my files to be at the same approximate volume level so that when I load it onto my flash drive, I can listen to my music on my truck stereo without having to constantly adjust the volume. Is there a better way to accomplish this? Does your player support "Replay Gain&q...

when i try to change the from and to boxes it won't let me, I have to copy and paste the numbers I want. The "From" box is automatically filled in by the effect attempting to detect the note at the start of the selection. Depending on the actual audio it may not be successful in finding t...

It's probably best to uninstall Audacity 1.3.x beta first so as to avoid complications with file associations. If you have a reasonably recent version of Lame that works with Audacity 1.3.x then Audacity 2.0 should pick it up automatically (so leave LAME installed and when you have installed Audacit...

Try enabling "software playthrough" in the Transport menu.

rbelew wrote:should i care?!

Which sounds better?

The recommended .dmg package includes the manual. http://audacityteam.org/download/mac

euser1 wrote:Well, like I said - I can see only 2 inputs in sound options...

Did you try un-hiding disabled and disconnected devices? (as described here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... es#vistacp )

Selecting the audio input should be available in the "Sound Settings". For full control of the sound system you probably need to install and use the Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol). It is available in the Ubuntu repository so you can install it with either Synaptic or the Ubuntu S...