Audacity Forum

Before you go any further I would highly recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/ The USB microphone must be plugged in and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity. In Audacity 1.3.12, go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" and ensure that t...

Same on Linux (tested on Ubuntu). I would probably make the suggestion a bit less forceful and say "recommended" rather than "should" as there may be instances where it is not practical to do so. As a general recommendation I'd agree that this is a good idea. For complex plug-ins...

No that's not possible directly.

You're aware that if you amplify each "song" from an album individually some may end up sounding louder or quieter than others?

What you can do using Chains is to Normalize each of the tracks after they have been exported.

I highlight the whole file by clicking bottom LH corner of main project window I'm not quite sure how you are doing that. To highlight an entire track, try clicking on the Track Control Panel (box on the left side of the track) just below the track name. Take care not to nudge the sliders when you ...

My understanding is that bit-rate for bit-rate and size for size AAC is generally reckoned to give better audio quality than MP3. That's not what the 128 kbps ABX tests from October 2008 show. http://listeningtests.t35.com/mp3-128-1/results.htm For reasonably good sound quality there's probably not...

If you are 100% sure that the line
[MP3]
does not exist in audacity.cfg, then ignore that step.

Have you downloaded the ZIP file from the web page indicated?
Have you "extracted" the contents of the ZIP file?
What files did that produce and where did you put them?

"softness" is not a standard measurement. The amount of "crushing" will depend on what effect was used to create the soft clipping. Probably the best you will do is to experiment with the code that I posted. Experiment with different values for "thresh" (threshold) and ...

The problem is that even at .1 input level the volume is such that I have trouble keeping Audacity's recording within the recommended .6 level. Are you using a "Line input" on your sound card or a "Mic input"? You should be using a Line level input as microphone inputs are far t...

The full data range is allowed for signed integer audio. The most positive value for a 16 bit sample is 32767 (7FFF Hex) The most negative value for signed 16-bit is -32769 (−8000 Hex) The smallest value is 0 (silence). This means that samples can be slightly more negative than positive, so 0 is not...

Quotes from http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Exporting_your_Audacity_Project_into_iTunes_and_iPod If burning that file to a CD, make sure the exported file is stereo. Is that strictly necessary? Most CD burning applications will accept mono WAV files. Perhaps something like: "Some CD burning p...