Audacity Forum

if I want to hear myself at the same time as I am recording over the music, there is a lag to what I hear Don't use "Software Playthrough". Ensure that is OFF (not selected) in the Transport menu. Software Playthrough has an unavoidable delay due to the time it takes for the sound to work...

Audacity projects are often too big to send by email. Also you need to ensure that you sent both the AUP file and the _data folder. If you must send a project, I'd recommend making a ZIP archive containing both the AUP file and the _data folder. You could then use dropbox or similar to send the ZIP ...

Truncate Silence is usually too fast to show a progress bar, so normally the effect will just do it.

Even downloading the manual requires special information! As waxcylinder has already said, the manual is included in the Audacity DMG. There are no additional steps required - just install Audacity and the manual is also installed. No additional steps, and no "special information". It's a...

By default an audio track is called "Audio Track".
From the track's drop down menu, if you select "Name", it will open a dialog that allows you to copy (or change) the name of the track. What is the full name of the track that you are having problems with?

What audio devices does your computer have (including USB, firewire, etc)

Steve made a plugin which will match frequency-responses, (a/k/a EQ scraping) , see ... viewtopic.php?p=203837#p203837 But it's not directly compatible with the latest version of Audacity. The "curve" file that it produces is compatible with the old "Equalization" effect. To me ...

Apple's advice if the system won't boot: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204267

(My Internet connection is terrible today, so I may not be able to reply quickly)

What I would like to do is create a macro that lets me paste the background noise into a selection. There's already a plug-in available to help you do that: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=208312#p208312 (actually it is two plug-ins, one for copying and one for pasting.) The user doc...

According to the error log, that appears (to me) to be the problem: Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x1] Library missing Application Specific Information: dyld: launch, loading de...