Audacity Forum

As the load on your computer is increasing (with more audio tracks, thus more data to push through) your sound card is slowing down so the tracks are going out of synch. That should not happen, but often does happen with on-board (and some budget) sound cards because (to keep costs down) much of the...

You need to be more specific lenny. Do you mean the average (RMS) dB, the peak dB, the A-weighted dB, or some other dB.
If you're not sure which is the "right" dB, perhaps you could say why you want to know the "dB" then we may be able to work out "which" dB you need.

No no no... we can't have ONE nice looking button, it'll make all the others look even worse.

You took the words out of my mouth

The number of channels available at one time depends on both the hardware and the drivers. As far as I'm aware, the hardware of the Alesis Multimix 8 USB supports 8 channel recording, but the Xenyx mixers only support 2 channels at a time (this will usually be the stereo mix of everything that is pl...

Which version of Lame are you using and where did you get it from?
What compression settings are you using?

e above message is preceded by a " FFmpeg not found". I installed the library, but this message persists. I presume that you are using Audacity 1.3.12 - if not, you need to upgrade. Go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Libraries" If FFmpeg is installed correctly it will tell you the...

Audacity 1.2 does not have a Track menu.

I'd recommend upgrading to Audacity 1.3.12 which you can download from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

Forget Audacity 1.2, it's known to have problems on Windows 7 and Vista. The version that you should be using is 1.3.12 (the "12" is important - look in the Audacity "Help menu > About Audacity" to check you have the correct version). Tell us a bit about your set-up. How much fre...

spaarks wrote:is ALSA what decodes and demuxes the packets at the computer end?

Are you using Linux?