Audacity Forum

A lot of Acer laptops have a microphone input mini-jack that also doubles as a line-in connector allowing recording of stereo line-level inputs. They are not usually very good quality sound-cards, and on some Acer laptops they may only be mono microphone inputs, but it's possible that you may be abl...

My preferred method of sending media via e-mail is just to include a link. For example:



"Hi Flossy, turn on your computer sound then click HERE"

Would you want a list of values for Peak level, RMS and RMS A-weighted with the additional text removed? Would you prefer the values to be comma separated, space separated, or each value on a new line? For example, if values are comma separated: If you imported 10 mono files so that they stacked one...

During recording you can press Ctrl+M then type in a name for the label or just press ENTER.

I imported a wav file in Audacity and exported that file as a project You Imported a WAV file into Audacity and you Saved the Audacity Project. "Export" is when you send the audio out of Audacity to create an audio file - Audacity Projects are not audio files. See here for more informatio...

Some VOIP applications may be configured to select which input source you want to use. For example, Skype running on Ubuntu (Linux) uses PulseAudio by default which allows any audio output to be routed through to the Skype audio input. Whether or not that can be done depends on the VOIP application ...

As Koz said, the sounds in multiple tracks all add up. Imagine one voice shouting compared to a thousand voices shouting - the thousand voices will be louder, but in digital audio the 0 dB limit applies to the combined sound as well as to the individual tracks. Neither the individual tracks or the c...

u-law is not a format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C-law_algorithm To create a file that is compatible with your phone system you need to create a file that is the correct format. It needs to be the correct sample rate, sample format, with the correct header. Just being "u-law" is no...

The highest quality MP3 is 320 kbps CBR (320 kbps is the highest bit rate in the MP3 format, so 320 kbps means that the highest bit rate is being used for the entire file). Audacity 1.3.12 with the current version of Lame for Audacity supports both VBR and CBR (including 320 kbps). Lame is the only ...

I am not sure how to use this forum, but if anyone sees this and can help me please do so. I have windows 7 and audacity 1.3.12 and it doens't see my usb mike???? If you go to the board index page (link at top left of every page) you will see this page: http://forum.audacityteam.org/index.php If yo...