Audacity Forum

I presume that you are using Audacity 1.3.13 (Unicode)? (Please check in the Help menu > About Audacity). The problem is most likely to be the recording and/or playback device settings. What are you trying to record from? A USB microphone? What settings do you currently have in the Device Toolbar ? ...

That tutorial DOES NOT let me keep the music all in one piece and have a voice audio over top of it with the music still playing in the background. There are several different ways of accomplishing this task, but possibly the quickest is to use the Auto Duck effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/m...

I can't answer all of your questions, but I'll answer what I can and hopefully that will give some pointers of where to look next. Audio programs access the sound card via the sound card driver rather than directly accessing the hardware. Your questions revolve around "how to write your own sou...

Gale Andrews wrote:Steve and I will have libsndfile 1.0.21.

Confirmed. (1.0.21-2ubuntu0.10.10.1)
I use an almost default ./configure (for HEAD) including SYSTEM libsndfile. The only non-standard configuration is that I use libsamplerate rather than libresample.

Ubuntu Natty has 1.0.23 and Oneiric 1.0.24

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Audacity always works with uncompressed data. Those programs that can edit MP3s without decoding them are limited to basic editing such as cut, split, delete, and possibly fade-in/out. Many of the more sophisticated effects that Audacity can do can only be done on uncompressed audio and not on MP3s,...

It is common on Win 7 that the recording level needs to be turned down extremely low. I've not got Win 7, but I gather that if you Right click (or is it Left click) on the speaker icon near the time/date in the lower right corner of the desktop, you can open the Windows recording settings. See if yo...

MP3 encoding does not (normally) add silence onto the end of the file. If Audacity shows silence - a horizontal blue line in the middle of the track, then there is some silence there. I don't know why some silence may be added to the end of the track - that should not happen. Are you sure that it is...

As far as I can see, the problem looks like it is the sound card. I don't see that you're doing anything wrong that could account for the huge signal level. The sound card just appears to be massively too sensitive. I notice that as well as having the "Line in" at a very low level, you als...

Re. plug-in settings: For audio signals, the "dB" counts down from "0". 0 dB is full volume (+/- 1.0 on Audacity's vertical track scale). Less than full volume is measured as a negative number of dB, so a level of about half the track height is about -6 dB. A level of 1/4 of the ...