Audacity Forum

Another fly in the ointment is the LAME and FFmpeg locations. These are saved in the cfg file but will obviously not be correct when the "portable" Audacity is opened on another computer, since the paths to these files are not only absolute but system-dependent. Bill, Wouldn't installing ...

a. What is realy A1 and A0 in the formula? A 1 and A 0 are the linear amplitudes of the two sounds that we are comparing. If we are comparing A1 to "full scale", then we know that A 0 (full scale) is 1.0 so 20 log (A 1 /A 0 ) becomes 20 log A 1 b. Let us suppοse we have two pulses, A and ...

Just to be clear, I'm not actually "recommending" these programs, though "Pamela" has a very good reputation. The other one ("MP3 Skype Recorder") is just one that I found that looked OK when Googling for free skype recording. if I were to make a recommendation, it woul...

Following on from the previous posts: Signal A has a peak of 0.1 in the linear scale in the track window.This means that it is 20db quier than the maximum signal the Audacity can record safely. 0.1 linear = 20log0.1 = -20 dBFS Signal B has a peak of 0.2 in the linear scale in the track window.This m...

"Decibel" is a ratio. It is not an absolute measure in the way that kilograms, dollars or seconds are. A Decibel is always relative to some other value. In the case of audio signals (as you see in audio tracks in Audacity), decibels are relative to the "full scale" reading. In Au...

Audacity is NOT a good program for recording Skype due to the way that Skype controls the sound card. Ideally you would want to record your voice on one channel of a stereo track, and the other persons voice on the other channel. This can be done using specialist software such as "Pamela" ...

Windows XP? Right click on one of the files that did not back up and select "Properties". Compare the properties with an MP3 file from the same folder that did back up. Are there any differences? For example, does one have the "ready for archiving" flag set? If no files from that...

It's probably a Windows set-up problem, but let's go through systematically ;) I've plugged it on, phono to jack cables, Phono to jack between what and what? or the fact my laptop is recording at the same time? That is quite possible. Do you know where the microphone is on your laptop? If not, it's ...

I have a recording of Peer Gynt, which (for some reason known only to God) came through almost one and a half semitones flat The most likely reason is that at some stage in the production the recording was re-recorded while playing somewhere around 5 to 10 % too slow (most likely when it was transf...

File menu > Metadata Editor.

The Metadata Editor can be configured to open automatically on Export (it does this by default). The setting is in "Edit > Preferences > Import/Export".