Audacity Forum

I tried the analyze method and found several measures for A4 ranging from 435-450Hz. Quite unusual. With the "Size" parameter in "Plot Spectrum" set to 16384 then the graph around 4-500 Hz will be accurate to the nearest 1 Hz. Note that if you hover the mouse pointer over the gr...

There is always some loss of sound quality when encoding in any lossy compressed format such as MP3. Audacity can only work with uncompressed audio data, so when editing an MP3 Audacity will decode the MP3 first and then if you export as MP3 after editing there will be some loss of sound quality. Th...

And I think there is Alsa-Utils in Ubuntu 11.x as well which has an "alsaloop" module for hardware playthrough? Yes there is. Is that preferable/has less latency than pulse loopback? I only tried it briefly but latency was much worse than using module-loopback with PulseAudio and CPU usag...

Is the "routing" solution documented or answered in a Forum topic I think I've mentioned it a couple of times on the forum. Basically it's just: Alt + F2 to open a command line, then: pactl load-module module-loopback you should now have playback of the audio input through PulseAudio. DON...

Also the "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" effect (available in Audacity 1.3.13) will generally produce better quality sound than the standard "Change Pitch" effect (though processing takes longer due to the more complex time stretching method). The calculations are the same. Th...

I need to first find what the actual Concert A is (which is usually 440Hz), then change it to 432Hz. You can find the frequency of a tone by using "Plot Spectrum" (Analyze menu). Find an "A", select it, and use Plot Spectrum. The fundamental tone will usually be the highest peak...

You can still find if you use the (hw) devices with pulse running that there will be a long hang after you press Play or Record while pulse temporarily suspends itself I wasn't aware of that issue as I've never experienced that myself, but if that's the case then it would obviously be a good idea t...

but requires the right channel to "jump down" I'd find it deeply disturbing if it did that. ;) A mixed track already "jumps down" to the bottom of the screen, I know, and I find that disturbing (and other users have commented on the same). I doubt that many new users expect that...

polkat wrote: Yea! Doesn't sound likely, but I thought I'd ask.

I agree, it sounds extremely unlikely.

I think we've gone as far as we can without using a debugging tool (as suggested by Gale).

If all you want to do is to not use PulseAudio with Audacity , all you probably need to do is to set the recording and playback devices to your actual hardware (for example "hw:0,0") rather than setting them to "default" or "pulse". You should be able to set this in the...