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The "Soft Clipping Limiter" will do less quality damage than the "Hard Limiter". Also, the "Soft Clipping Limiter" can automatically amplify the audio after squashing the peaks, whereas the "Hard Limiter" just chops off the peaks and you have to manually ampli...

How about something like this. The attachment is a Nyquist Plug-in that can be installed by copying into the Audacity Plug-ins folder and restarting Audacity. It will appear "below the line" in the Effect menu. Unfortunately the sample rate conversion quality is not quite as good in Nyquis...

Installed in the default location as shown in the installer. The default location is on the C: drive, not the D: drive. Please check where the "audacity.exe" is located. Is it in: D:/Program Files/Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)/ or C:/Program Files/Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)/ Assuming that ...

Soft Clippings, where is this effect? Here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=2918 You have to download it and put it in your Audacity Plug-ins folder, then restart Audacity and it will appear in the "Effect" menu. On Windows, the Plug-ins folder will be in the Audacity f...

I believe that RealPlayer allows you to burn Real Audio files to CD. You can then rip the CD to WAv, MP3 or whatever you like with your favourite CD ripper. (I stopped using RealPlayer years ago because it was trying to take over as the default player for every media type, was constantly nagging me ...

Could you add my vote while you're there Bill. I'm forever forgetting which has to be divided by what and it should be really easy for the effect to calculate it.

I'm pretty chuffed with it myself I particularly like the TARDIS type sounds.

Jill wrote:Is this possible without crashing the programs? I am currently running version 1.2 on Windows 7. J

Yes you can but there may be some specific steps that you need to take. How many and which versions do you want?
Audacity 1.2.x is not recommended for Win 7.

Did you install Audacity with the "Windows installer" version of Audacity (the .exe file) or with the .zip version?
Did you install Audacity in the default location?
Where are the help files on your computer? (full directory address)

i recorded music with audacity for 4 hours but my laptop went on the screensaver. so now i have 1600 (!) .au files There's a big chunk of the story missing. You were recording for 4 hours, then what? Did Audacity crash? Was your hard drive full? Have you read this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/ma...