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If the unwanted sounds occur at different times from the wanted sounds, you can use the Envelope Tool: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Envelope_Tool
If both wanted and unwanted sounds occur at the same time then you probably can't significantly reduce one without a lot of damage to the other.

Audacity does not save files, it saves "Projects" (see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects ) Audacity Projects are easily broken if you delete or manually change any part of the project - be careful not to make manual changes to any of the files or folders used in th...

It looks to me like the USB connection on the problem computer is having trouble keeping up, and so every now and then it looses synchronisation with the audio data, resulting in bad noise (scrambled data). What's the specification of that computer? Which version of Windows are you running? Have you...

How did you install Audacity? Synaptic? Software Centre?
Which version of Audacity do you have installed (if installed from the Ubuntu repository, open Synaptic and search for Audacity and it will show a version number).

In summary, here's how I imagine my workflow for transformation of my set of mega tracks: Change mega track to "stereo" by removing one channel Split mega track into subtracks Open each subtrack individually and apply: Remove the constant noise if any Normalize volume Apply compressor eff...

Sound Finder probably does not need a label at the end of the track (Silence Finder does not have this). There are probably so few cases it would be useful that it is easier for user to add the final label. I presume that there are some user cases, but I can't think of one. Anyone got any ideas why...

steve wrote:Another possible user case could be recording vinyl - clicks between tracks should not be marked as "sound".

Here's an actual user case: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 17&t=30717

There was an updated version download/file.php?id=2122 discussed in this thread that puts the negative sign in the text box. I had forgotten that, but that's fine. Can't find any evidence of a "behind zero" fix - if a sound is behind zero its label is behind zero in the above id2122 versi...

The example is the one I e-mailed you about in the Summer where someone was recording ultrasonic vocalizations produced by animals. The vocalisations would never be shorter than a given length but could be fairly loud. He has lots of short (often loud) noises in the recording that cannot be animal ...

all up to date but probably an old version of "Microsoft Visual C++" Please follow the instructions here to download and install "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package": http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=45745#p45745 . Although that thread is old, the...