Audacity Forum

I'm still curious as to what caused the message that I had another copy of Audacity running, when I tried to start Audacity with 2.3.1. Previous versions of Audacity used a "lock file" to ensure that only one instance of Audacity would run at a time. (If there are multiple instances, it c...

Try going back to "Audacity [v2.3.3r]". You can get it here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html

Does that version work correctly on you computer?

You can learn about Audacity Macros here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

Audacity 2.4.2 includes two example macros:

• "Fade Ends" (for adding a fade-in / fade-out to the selected audio
• "MP3 conversion" for batch converting files to MP3

Same studio and set up, but the EQ is slightly different in each part. I used plot spectrum and can view the differences. How can I make the edits match sonically? I'd suggest that you use the "Graphic EQ" effect (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/graphic_eq.html) Assuming that you want...

Jebbers wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:58 pm

My installation failed. I don't have a zip file. I have tar.xz.

That's the wrong file.
The manual is available from here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html
Click on the text link that says "Audacity Manual". That will give you the file "audacity-manual-2.4.2.zip"

jcjovi wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 30, 2020 9:35 am

The music is in mp3 format, and I got it from YouTube Audio Library

I've just tried 3 files at random from there, and they all import into Audacity 2.4.2 with no problem.

Original file bitrate is 384 kb/s but ffmpeg converting this bitrate to 448 kb/s why? Does it matter? The file size will be a little larger but other than that it shouldn't be a problem. I'd guess that if you look through the FFmpeg documentation there will be an option that you could add for the t...

That's a mystery.

I assume that you are logged into the computer with the same user account? Each user has their own Audacity settings.

fbwaud wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:54 am

I've tested these ffmpeg options working successfully directly in the terminal.

Try testing with a "32-bit float WAV" as the input file. Does that work?

When I played it back in Audacity I noticed that some parts of the song would occasionally tip the bar over 0db (presumably due to the stacking). Yes it's probably due to "stacking". When tracks are mixed ("stacked"), all overlapping tracks are literally "added" togeth...