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Which programming language(s) are you comfortable with?

For the theory side, there are numerous books about audio digital signal processing. There's an article here that recommends some books: http://www.redcedar.com/learndsp.htm

Sadly there are quite a few #@*#! extorting money for all sorts of things. Selling Audacity is not in itself illegal, in fact it is explicitly allowed under the terms of the GPL license agreement, provided that the terms of the license are adhered to. You'll find details of the Audacity license here...

maybe it has something to do with mixing down to mono or stereo channels? No that would not cause the problem. The type of microphone that you are using is not ideal for use with a computer and may not work on some computers. A "standard computer mic" is an electret type, but the power fo...

Installing Debian tends to be quite slow (for Linux) unless you already have a full set of CDs (loads of them). Debian can be installed from just CD1, or a mini-download for a net install, but either way there's a lot of data downloading, so I hope you have fast broadband. If not, there's a Virtualb...

What Linux are you running currently? Debian Squeeze 32 bit (Linux kernel 2.6.32-39 686 with Gnome). If you're going to install Debian, you'll probably find this sources list useful: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze ...

I get very nervous when I read that someone is deleting .au files. Those files are not ordinary audio files, they are the data components of an Audacity Project and they should not be changed manually. There's a more comprehensive description of the structure of an Audacity Project here: http://manu...

Have a look at the headers listed at the top of GUIPrefs (.h & .cpp both) and add any of these which are not there now: Tried that, but no difference, still the same error. // wxFontMapper class #define wxUSE_FONTMAP 1 #define wxUSE_FONTPICKERCTRL 1 // wxFontPickerCtrl // Use font picker dialog...

this is the first i'm using a mic with my laptop, if that helps, That could be quite significant. When you previously said "everything WAS working fine i recorded a track with no problems" I assumed that you meant that you were using the same set-up and equipment. Is the "electret mi...

My data is on an adjusted dB scale. So my values are like 86.7 dB, 76.8 dB, 66.4 dB, ....., etc relative to what? In Audacity (and signal processing in general), 0 dB is usually taken relative to full scale. That is, +1 or -1 on the linear scale (top / bottom of the audio track) is 0 dB. All normal...

If this was a "classical concert" then the "short loud noises to be ignored" setting would be very useful, but so would the "allow silences between sounds" setting which I would set quite long. It would let me digest the last movement while listening to the low level a...