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WAV - uncompressed - (free) supported by Linux. Flac - lossless compression - about 50% of the size of WAV files at the same sound quality - (free) supported by Linux OGG Vorbis - compressed - Lossy - (free) supported by Linux MP3 - compressed - Lossy - (proprietary) - Lame required for encoding (ma...

Are there any SNR gains by recording at the closest to 0 dB as possible Theoretically, yes. Practically, no. Whether you are recording from vinyl, cassette, microphone, or whatever, it's highly unlikely (unless you have some really fancy equipment) that the signal that you are recording (after it h...

Thanks for the update. I don't like your s-in too much because it looks like behaviours and I normally never use dashes ( '-' ) in variable names when programming. perhaps underscores. That's OK, I don't like using underscores [grin] and I don't like using function names for variables {there is a Ny...

willemsg wrote:about the reason why I can't hear the music playing

How are you listening? Headphones? Speakers? How are they connected to the computer?

I'm not sure what you mean "scripted"
What's wrong with just applying the effect from the Effects menu?
or are you wanting to "batch process" multiple files?

Audacity 1.2.6 is ancient and requires numerous obsolete libraries. Using any of the 1.2 series of Audacity is likely to be problematic unless it is well supported by the OS maintainers. There's very few BSD / OpenSolaris users that come to this forum, and none of the regular contributors use them, ...

This is the 'studio way'. It's one of the studio ways (and over-used in my opinion :P ) Generally, for multi-track recording, my preference is to have a "click track" that is one or more real instruments, played by real people, rather than a rigid mechanical (electronic) click. I'm not su...

My instinct is leaning towards this being a sound card driver problem.

This is an on-board audio (sound card built into the mother board)?
Have you checked on the mother board manufacturers web site to see if update drivers are available?

But you're basically saying we don't really know where the [EQ] process takes place - it could be either ? It could, and I've seen both. The usual way for hardware digital players is: Digital data -> D/A converter -> Tone and Gain -> Amplifier -> Out In software players (WinAmp, Windows Media Playe...

It sounds like you could do with a better mouse ;) Here's some tips that may help with some of the issues: The Problem: Every time I go to "File" in the corner or when I pick the "Zoom" magnify tool or the "Selection" cursor tool, I accidentally click on that notched ba...