Audacity Forum

Just remembered this plug-in: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=38442&p=157572 It's a "Quick conversion calculator" that is available from the Audacity Generate menu. Although it does not actually "generate" anything, I made it as a Generate type plug-in ...

Stimulus wrote:To clarify, I meant to ask if clipping becomes more apparent at varying volumes and qualities of playback systems.

On a low quality playback system, a small amount of clipping may go unnoticed, but immediately become irksome when listened to on a high quality system.

web wrote:I am using Audacity 1.3 Beta Unicode.

1.3. ???
The last number is important.

steve wrote: Which version of Windows?

Are you able to record a single audio track, export it as a WAV file and then play that exported file with Windows Media Player?

I'm sure the current vision of Audacity supports such things Audacity 1.3.x has Regular Interval Labels... There is also a Beat Per Minute labels plug-in. here's mine for Audi126 You mean "Audacity 1.2.6 on Windows". They should also work with Audacity 1.2.x on case sensitive operating sy...

32-bit float format is able to handle values over 0 dB. Sound cards do not use "float format" they use "integer formats" so they will always clip at 0 dB. IF the files that you have are 32 bit float format then it may be possible to bring them back down to within the 0 dB limit b...

pwarborg wrote: The sound from the line-in is DELAYED before I can hear it in the headphones!

Turn off "software playthrough" (Transport menu)

You've posted in the Audacity 1.2.x part of the forum but I doubt that you are using Audacity 1.2.x
Recording at a high and non-standard sample rate is a lot more demanding on the system than recording at a standard rate. Why not record at 44100 Hz?

PCM, 96kHz and 24 bit is a very high quality format, but the file size will be huge and the flash memory may struggle to keep up with the amount of data. Try a test recording with PCM. 44.1 kHz 24 bit and see how that goes (the recording quality is virtually identical, but less than half the amount ...

Let's start at the beginning. Which exact version of Audacity are you using (look in the Help menu > About Audacity) Please give the full version description (for example 1.3.15-alpha-Dec 21 2011 Unicode) Which version of Windows? Are you able to record a single audio track, export it as a WAV file ...

and I think my version is 1.2. You can check the Audacity version by looking in the Audacity help menu > About Audacity. I would highly recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.14 Unicode. http://audacityteam.org/download/ The easiest way to upgrade is to uninstall your current version first, the...