Audacity Forum

Audacity data files (.AU) do not have a specified sample rate. The sample rate is set by the AUP file, so I don't know what files you are analysing, but if they say what the sample rate is in the header, then they are not Audacity data files. If you "Import" existing audio files into Audac...

Both of your posts were sent and were waiting to be approved by a moderator. Sorry about the inconvenience, but this has become a necessary step due to spammers abusing the system. I've just read your post three times, and I'm still not sure what the actual problem is that you are having. In case th...

I think on my old drive I had installed Audacity 1.3.12. Now I have 1.3.13. Could this be the reason why the recording input is grayed out now? Personally, I don't think so, but don't really know. There's an easy way to find out. Download Audacity 1.3.12 as a ZIP file from here . Unzip (extract) th...

Could you check the exact version number of Audacity - look in the Help menu > About Audacity.

More compression.
Try the compressor in Audacity 1.3.13 and use the "based on peaks" option. with a fast attack/decay. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Compressor

tommytones wrote:I'm having the same problem, but with recording from a portable recorder. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Need a lot more information.
What's wrong with the sound?
What equipment do you have and how is it connected?

toastytraxx wrote:Oh I mean I want to record something that is playing from audacity back in to audacity for a certain reason but it wont let me do it.

Sorry I don't understand.

So it's a playback problem for all sound on your computer?

Check the wiring to your speakers/headphones.
Try a different pair of headphones.
Any difference?

You will probably need to manually add the path to SoX in your environmental variables (or always change to the SoX directly before launching it).

Recently I had to reinstall Audacity. Why was that? I don't think it's a set-up problem with Audacity. It sounds more like a data bottleneck somewhere. Try defragmenting the hard drive, rebooting then turning off all non-essential programs /processes and see if that makes any difference. Have you i...