Audacity Forum

If you are wanting to amplify the two channels so that both end up with the same peak level, then the Normalize effect in 1.3.13 does that. What Normalize in the alpha version has is the additional ability to amplify both channels by the same amount, so any difference between peak levels is maintain...

My guess is that you are recording from your laptop microphone but without a detailed description of what equipment, what operating system, how it's all connected up and what settings you it's impossible to say with any certainty.

Ah, that makes more sense. As alexius wrote, Lame is not the fastest MP3 encoder, but it is a high quality encoder (one of the very best). 20 minutes to encode a 2 hour show still seems a bit slow even for Lame. It takes less than half that on my cheap Linux laptop with 192 kbps CBR, and about 7 min...

Am I correct in thinking that you have recently purchased a USB turntable/cassette player or similar and that it came with Audacity 1.2.6 ? Audacity 1.2 is now very old and has not been updated in years. I'd recommend that you download Audacity 1.3.13 from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta...

Audacity does not do real time processing.
You can browse the Audacity source code here: http://code.google.com/p/audacity/sourc ... -src/trunk
or download it here: http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... ta.tar.bz2

Yes. That was a 2 hour aiff file I recorded on Wednesday. I can try it again and post back if you like. The thing that is confusing me is that the image says: "192 kbps" which must surely be a compressed format, whereas the standard AIFF export format in Audacity is uncompressed PCM encod...

Do that while the labelled region is selected. As long as you are using a region label the selection will follow the label. As soon as you click on the label to drag it, you've lost the precise spot where you want to move the label to. It sounds like you are trying to adjust the selection, then mov...

There is a bug in the Ubuntu 11.x version of Audacity. FFMpeg export formats (AC3, WMA, MP4 ...) do not work. We can't do anything about that as it is a bug in their build version, not a bug in the current Audacity code. You could try adding this PPA repository to your sources: https://launchpad.net...

rmcellig wrote: when I want to save an aiff file....

....Here is a screenshot of the save in progress in Audacity

Are you sure that is exporting an AIFF file?

1. Pasting sound. I also use Sound Studio on the Mac. If for example the sound is recorded properly in the right channel but rather weak in the left channel, all I do is highlight the sound in the right channel and paste it in the left channel. Very easy and quick. So far in Audacity, the only way ...