Audacity Forum

waxcylinder wrote:I can't see a build date in the "About Audacity"

Look at the bottom of the "Build Information" tab. If it's anywhere it will be there. (I think the build date may be not always included on the release version - not sure because I usually build from source).

For future reference, if you have a new question it is generally better to start a new topic. New questions on the bottom of existing topics will often be missed. importing some mp3 into Audacity yesterday run fine but the speed of the track reading is very too fast You mean that they in a couple of...

I am still not sure what this does. Read this, it explains http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects It is very important that you understand what an Audacity Project is and how it works, in particular that you understand about "_data" folders, "Dependencies" and how ...

I'm not totally clear about what you mean, but I think that you may be inadvertently making "dependencies" unavailable,
See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects
Do you have "Import files" set to the "safer" (copy) option in Preferences?

16-bit audio does not support over zero dB. Use the "Amplify" effect (top of the Effect menu". The default setting will amplify the level so that the highest peak(s) touches 0 dB. You will then be able to Export as 16-bit without clipping. Although 32-bit float format is forgiving of ...

Is there any way to edit these files en mass to delete the right ear channel and essentially make it mono but using only the left ear channel? You can do that with SoX http://sox.sourceforge.net/ SoX is a command line program and does not include a batch processing function, but you can use almost ...

Audacity does not record MIDI.
MIDI is not sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_In ... _Interface

You need to plug into the light blue socket on the back.
Do you get a pop-up notification when you plug into a socket on the back?

I've edited the topic title. Had to go for a shortened version due to the maximum number of characters allowed in a title.

Edgar wrote:@Steve -- could you re-test with 1 to 4 hours of generated noise?

Sorry, I've got 4 OS's on this machine and not a very big drive, so I've not got space to do much over an hour.
I may be able to have a go on another machine some time next week.