Audacity Forum

atoole wrote:So, there's no way to open it in something other than Ableton?

That appears to be the case.

Many (most) laptop PCs have very poor quality sound cards (even really expensive laptops). You may be able to improve the signal by going into the Windows Control Panel Sound settings (see here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#vistacp ), but to get good quality clean recording...

Hi, Everytime I export to mp3, .05 secs of silence is inserted at the beginning. So it no longer matches the labels. How do I prevent it from inserting that silence? Export in a different format. One of the limitations of the MP3 format is that there is always a short amount of leading silence. If ...

That one backed up also. Guess what I did to that one..... Nothing. I just downloaded it and uploaded it again. My guess is that it is either a "permissions" problem, or a Carbonite setting, but I don't know enough about either to be able to make any further suggestions. What we do know i...

Open Audacity Transport menu > Turn off "Software Playthrough" Turn down your speakers to a low level or use headphones (may or may not be necessary, but a good precaution at this point to avoid hearing a loud squeal). Go into the playback mixer for your sound card and mute the microphone...

This is probably a good place to start:
/src/Spectrum.cpp

I'm sensing you're taking me away from my goa I'm trying to understand your goal and work out how I may help you. Audacity Project files are always quite small. Typically they will be less than 100 KB. Audacity Project files have a ".aup" file extension. They do not contain any audio data...

Sorry for the confusion tom_bitt, you're English is excellent, but occasionally you use phrases that have additional connotations in my part of the world. "Until now..." is an expression that commonly implies that at this point ("now"), something is different. For example, in the...

If the audio in the Audacity Project is stereo, then the exported WAV will be stereo.

Where is it "loud suddenly"? The sample that you posted seems to be all about the same volume, though there is some harsh distortion from time to time.