Audacity Forum

Are you using Audacity 1.3.12 with the latest FFmpeg installed? I've tried with some video files (a wmv file and an avi file) and the sound has been imported correctly - I've not got any VOB files handy at the moment. There may be differences depending on what OS you are on - I'm using Linux which u...

This is without forced formatting on Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows XP The screen size for XP is 1360 x 638 (on virtual machine) The screen size for Ubuntu is 1366 x 768 linux-XP.png This is the text if you want to do a like-for-like comparison: "This effect only works on stereo tracks. Set the req...

On Linux (Unbuntu 10.10) with Audacity 1.3.13
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"RealTek HD" is not a "sound card" as such - the name refers to the audio driver rather than the actual hardware components, and the quality of the hardware components can vary enormously from one machine to another. With good hardware Realtek HD is capable of excellent performan...

Re. Truncate silence - you could do that as a "batch" process. Audacity has some (limited) batch processing ability by creating "chains" of commands that can then be applied to multiple files. See here for the documentation about "Chains" in the manual: http://manual.au...

What sort of Mixer?
How is it connected yo your laptop?
Is your mic plugged into the mixer?
Does the mixer indicate a signal from the mic?
Which version of Windows are you using?
Which version of Audacity?

A colour problem that seems more critical is that with the default Ubuntu 10.10 theme the play speed of the transcription tool is unreadable without double clicking to open the text input. This is what it looks like while being adjusted with the mouse: Audacity_020.png And this is what it looks like...

The only downside is that to undo the Change Speed when you want to export at the real speed, you need to work out the maths to slow down the track to original speed (for example, a 100% speed change will halve the track length/double the playback speed, but to restore the original track length/spe...

Under Windows 7 at least, I'm amble to monitor any of my inputs on any of my outputs - but with some lag since it's all cheap stuff It's not because its "cheap stuff", it's because there is no hard wired connection between the USB microphone and the headphone output on the sound card, so ...

(setdir "~/") does not work Just noticed that in my browser that looks like "hyphen, forward slash", but in fact it is "tilda, forward slash" Just in case others have similar display problems, a "tilda" is the "squiggle" that looks a bit like an &qu...