Audacity Forum

In QJackCtl, click on the "Setup" button. In the setup screen, look on the right hand side where it says "Input device:" and "Output Device:" Ignore the drop down menus, look just to the right of those and you should see a [>] after each of those drop down menus. Click ...

Edit menu > Paste
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sugardaddy wrote: When I then export the new AC3 file, is this a recompression of the original? Will I lose quality in any way?

Yes and yes.

sugardaddy wrote: it also seems to lose some volume after exporting also.

Are you exporting as a 6-channel AC3?

Could you upload one of the files for us to have a look at - you could use a free file sharing site such as sendspace.com and post the download link.

oyoy71 wrote:I usually export the complete file before I do anything, but not this time.

Isn't that always the case - the one time that you really need a backup....

Audacity does not store recordings on disk as a single file, it writes to disk as small "blocks" of data. A single recording can have thousands of blocks, all with unique, but essentially random numbered file names. As Koz suggested, the chances of recovering the data blocks after this tim...

You can use what you have now and the Time Shift Tool (sideways black arrows) to push track two to the right so it starts after track one. Then push track three to the right until it starts after one and two. etc. They'll merge when you Export. For clarification, Koz is referring to the Audacity Pr...

I would think that I should be able to select the input channel for a track. There is a feature request on the wiki for this: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Feature_Requests#Multi-channel.2Fmulti-device_issues Allow nonconsecutive set of input channels to be selected e.g. to deal with devices th...

Audacity is not yet able to "map" input channels.
If you want to record just one channel you must use "Channel 1" of the device.
If you set Audacity to record 2 channels, then it will record channels 1 and 2 (and so on).

Interesting, though I'm not sure I follow you. The properties for the files in question says that they indeed are AIF files. Unfortunately, the information in "properties" only tells you what the file extension is. It does not tell you what the actual file format is. You can rename a Word...