Audacity Forum

Thank you for satisfying my curiosity zapparella :) For my own usage I would not find a linear scale to be useful. (Considering the frequency plots in my previous posts, most of the interesting stuff is in the range of -42 dB to -24 dB, which on a linear scale is about 0.008 to 0.063, but that is pr...

There are several potential problems that can occur when dealing with very long files. Not least, any processing will take ages. Is there any reason why you cannot just work on one track at a time rather than trying to combine them all into one huge file?

WAV files are limited to a maximum size of 4 GB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV

1 hour at CD quality (16 bit, 44100 Hz, stereo) requires about 620 MB. That gives a maximum of about 6.5 hours.
What is the exact WAV format that you are using? (mono or stereo? 16, 24 or 32 bit? What sample rate?)

The 0 dB limit is not a limitation in Audacity. In fact Audacity is one of the relatively few audio programs that can handle over 0 dB correctly (recent versions of Audacity 1.3.x). The 0 dB limit is a limitation of "integer formats". In 16-bit, there are are 65536 possible values. These r...

I doubt that many people on this part of the forum can read Dutch, so here's a Google Translation: In the new version I miss the ability to edit ID3 tags in the ID3 v1 and ID3 v2 like this in the 1.2.6 version was still possible. However, there are media-fill capabilities but they are not at that le...

For setting up a home studio, the mixing desk is the centre piece of the studio - everything goes through the mixer. However, for making a PowerPoint presentation, it is unlikely that you will need a mixing desk. The main purpose of a mixing desk is to mix together multiple sound sources into a sing...

If somebody said I needed to do this. I'd probably mark off a one minute chunk of timeline and count the syllables as the speaker progressed. That is how I would do it, but if I was doing research and needed to test a lot of subjects, then I'd have one or more prepared scripts written down each wit...

Just a side issue, the current version of Skype for Linux works fine with PulseAudio.

You're in luck - some kind person has written a tutorial about that :) http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Creating_a_simple_voice_and_music_Podcast_with_Audacity I would however also recommend that you use the 1.3.13 version of Audacity - it's a lot better than the old 1.2.6 version. You can get it h...

Select both tracks, and then Mix and Render (Tracks>Mix and Render). Notice that it creates a mixed Stereo track, but the positions have switched. The clue is in the name, (though probably not apparent to many users): "Mix and Render". The stereo track is the result of mixing the selected...