Audacity Forum

Thanks for the the clarification chris.

There is a tool called Tracks > Mix and Render about which I know nothing, but it appears to produce a single mixed track at the correct levels. It appears that you know almost everything about that feature :D (just a couple of details to fill in) What it does is to "mix" (add together) a...

You have an invalid character, either in a file name, or in the metadata (id3 tags) for a file. If you can copy and paste the first few lines into your post someone will probably show you exactly which words/characters are causing the problem (include enough to include the error line number, and a f...

It seems that I accidentally posted this in the wrong section. No problem, I've moved it to the right place. I want to record what I hear, and not what I speak to my mic. And what is it that you are hearing? Is it a CD? Is it an Internet radio station playing in your web browser? Don't be worried a...

Have a go with Audacity 1.3.12 - this is the recommended version for Vista and is available from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows

“Ak5371” - that's a USB audio chip - are you using a USB (external) audio device?

PortAudio provides a very simple API for recording and/or playing sound using a simple callback function. http://www.portaudio.com/ It was my understanding that Audacity used the Portaudio API, but I'm not a programmer so I'm happy to be corrected. Perhaps my layman's terminology is insufficient, b...

It is a laptop with internal speakers. When I mute the speakers with the sound off button the recording trace goes to zero. If I plug in earphone which redirects the sound away from the speakers to the earphone the recording trace also goes to zero. In that case Joe, plug in your earphones and chec...

Do your speakers have an on/off switch? If so, leave them plugged in but switch them off.

When you boot up the system, at what point does the beep start?

pulseaudio is the default for Ubuntu.

Let's see if this will stop it - if it does, restart you system and see if the beep starts up again:

Press Alt+F2

In the "Run Application" box, type: Click the "Run" button.