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Audacity is tone deaf - it does not know or care if you are singing, talking, or breaking wind.

my recordings(through Headphone line in)have been fine but for some reason, all of a sudden, I'm getting buzzing & bass distortion when recording streaming audio. I keep reading this phrase and it's bugging me. How/what were you previously recording? How/what are you now trying to record? Have ...

The beauty of MP3Spit is that it does not decode the MP3 so it does not need to "remember" what the original format was - it just splits the original file and creates the necessary file headers so that the output file(s) work. This is a completely different way of working from Audacity. In...

There's an application for Linux called Jack Time Machine that starts recording 10 seconds before you press the record button. It does this by maintaining a 10 second cache of audio data which is written to the hard drive when you press the record button. The length of time that is held in the cache...

Audacity does not edit files directly but works with "Projects". The main reason for this is to allow the program to work efficiently and at high quality. For example, imagine if you had a 3 hour recording in Audacity and you wanted to delete a couple of seconds from somewhere in the middl...

I see four kinds of tracks -- Audio, Stereo, Label, and Time. Oops, I forgot "Time" tracks, but they're just a bit weird anyway :) double-clicking in Audio, Stereo and Label all result in ALL of the audio being selected Just considering mono and stereo tracks for a moment. That is only tr...

Played it on my Windows Media Player, and it was playing ok Good - that was just to establish that Audacity is actually recording correctly. So onto getting sound out of Audacity: In Audacity "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" Could you list what options are available, and which options ...

Try this: Record something. Apply the "Amplify" effect to the recoding using the default settings. Check that the "Project Rate" (lower left corner of the Audacity window) is set to 44100 (change it to 44100 if necessary). Export as a 16 bit WAV file. Try playing the exported fil...

Are you listening through headphones?

See the reply to your duplicate post: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 62#p101562