Audacity Forum

Audacity should clean up after itself when you close it. Audacity projects are often quite big - an Audacity project consists of an AUP file and a data folder with all the data (.AU) files in it. While you are recording, Audacity writes data to the temporary folder (default is /tmp/audacity-username...

"Insane" is the best sound quality MP3 possible. The "Preset" settings are VBR (except for "Insane") and are optimised settings to give the best trade-off between sound quality and file size. Higher "bit rate" files use more "bits per second", so the...

ulrichburke wrote:Got an E.Q. plug-in from the Audacity plugin page.

Which plug-in is it?

ulrichburke wrote:How the heck do you KNOW what frequency you want to E.Q.?

"Analyze > Plot Spectrum"
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... alyze_Menu

and just upgraded from 1.2.4 today. And you upgraded to Audacity 1.3.9? If not, then upgrade to 1.3.9. In 1.3.9, go to the edit menu and click on Preferences. In the Devices tab, select which device you want for recording, and which for playback. Your USB device must be connected, powered up and re...

Are you playing both the WAV and the MP3 in the same media player?
What media player is it?

1 meg per minute is about average for medium quality MP3 (stereo)
10 meg per minute for CD quality WAV.

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time ... I don't think it's actually a "real time" effect that siys is asking about. (are there any programs that do real-time time stretching? Trying to think about how that would work makes my head hurt). I think what siys wants is to be able to grab...

What is this exactly, please? It appears that it shifts the track and is more efficent than creating silences, yes? Yes, it's a quick and easy way to precisely position the words along the time line. Any "white space" before the audio clip will be exported as silence, so yes, it's another...

So the recording is a mix of your voice and the other peoples voices all on the same track? If so, there's not a great deal that you can do about it, but you may find that "Chris's Dynamic Compressor" helps to even out the levels. http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/ When you fi...

Are you able to play an imported file?
or can you generate a tone (generate menu) and play it?