Audacity Forum

1, and 2) Both references to opening the text files need to have quotes around the file name. Near line 160, and line 209. I don't know what you mean. Lines 158 to 166: def _write_pipe_open(self): """Open _write_pipe.""" self._write_pipe = open(WRITE_NAME, 'w') def _re...

Emerogork wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:12 pm

do_command(NEW) where I can open a new track and
do_command(Close) where I can close Audacity.

How about Play, Stop, SelectAll, Record1stChoice, Record2ndChoice, or other commands from https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/scr ... rence.html

Emerogork wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:52 pm

After making three corrections in the command line interface code, I finally got it to work.

What were they?

Vittorio wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:42 pm

Has it been removed from the board?

Yes. We had too many people abusing the feature to place spam in the forum, which was taking up so much of the moderators' time that they had little time left to help with questions about Audacity.

Does that mean that my mp3 files are damaged? Yes, but not necessarily badly damaged, and there may be no audible damage when played in other apps. Audacity 2.4.2 is very fussy and requires MP3 to exactly meet the MP3 specification. In particular it does not accept "ape" tags. The next Au...

Alex_2509 wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:11 pm

...but get little to no pickup on initial wave recording levels!

A "normal" recording level has peaks up to about half of the track height, with the recording meter showing maximum peaks of about -6 dB.
What are you getting?

Coconut_nut wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:37 pm

When I'm lunching audacity there is an error window that says "internal portAudio error"

Is there no error code number?

I assume that you are referring to "do_command" from "pipe_test.py"? That Python script is really only intended for testing (as the name suggests). To build a Python app that will do something useful, I'd suggest using the "pipeclient.py" module. Here's a direct link to...

1. Select the part that you want to replace. 2. "Edit menu > Remove Special > Split Delete" - this leaves a gap where the old audio was removed. 3. Record or import the new audio into a new track 4. Use the Time Shift Tool to line up the audio clips. Note that you can "click + drag&qu...

Matches with audacity-win-2.4.2.exe Good. For your peace of mind, you may also want to test the download on VirusTotal before the next step. Try temporarily disabling any 3rd party security products that are running on your computer, then attempt to install again. (Don't forget to re-enable them af...