Audacity Forum

Your "master" recordings (and back-ups for important recordings) should always be in an "uncompressed" format, so that means AIFF, WAV or Flac. WAV is the most widely supported, though AIFF is possibly more common on Mac. Flac files are less widely supported but are about half of...

Why is this is the French part of the forum?
Does this have anything to do with Audacity?

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There's no clipping on that.

In my Windows control panel > sounds and audio > audio > recording, I've got Edirol UA-4FX (my external sound card) and Modem #1 Line Record. You previously wrote: "Options now show MME and Windows soundMapper (what is that?) plus my soundcard and a Modem #1 input." What is your sound car...

I really just want to know where I can have Audacity record at a louder decibell rating without increasing the actual sound level that is being outputted. Thank you for the clarification - the details make all the difference. When you record from "Stereo Mix" (as shown in your linked imag...

Topic moved to the Audacity 1.3.x part of the forum. Have you seen the instructions here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#installffmpeg Please describe exactly what you have done so far and hopefully someone will be able to spot where it's going wrong. Ye...

This is certainly an important issue Brash Blusher, and that is why it is highlighted in red in this "frequently asked question" entry: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Opening_and_Saving_Files#aufolder as well as being described in detail in the manual here: http://manual.audacityte...

Topic moved to the Audacity 1.3 part of the forum. A "feature" of the Fast Track (and several other music sound cards) is that the two input channels work as independent halves of a stereo pair. This has the advantage that you can record two inputs at the same time with two unrelated signa...

I don't see much point in having this as a feature request as there are already a couple of ways to accomplish the task. Namely, generating silence at the beginning of the track, or using the "Tracks > Align Tracks". The second of these methods appears to be specifically for the functional...

Topic split so as to avoid confusion. my Gateway machine has on board Sigma-Tel audio and doesn't offer the "mix" option. What options does it have? Which version of Windows? Is there a "Sigma-Tel" mixer panel? If you're using Vista or Win 7, have you tried showing disabled and d...