Audacity Forum

What happens in Audacity is that because of the missing bit, the phrase, "certain ideas, none of which can be acted upon..." becomes "certain ideas, which can be acted upon..." when I join the files. So that I'm clear... You have 2 files - one has a recording of "certain id...

You can move focus from one track to the next with the up/down cursor keys. You can toggle select/unselect for the track with focus by pressing the ENTER key. Example: To select all tracks except for track 1 Click on Track 1 with the normal selection tool (track 1 now has focus) Ctrl+A (or "Sel...

This type of distortion is "polarity reversal". It is a problem that is specific to digital audio. It should not happen, and on high quality expensive equipment it rarely if ever does, but not uncommon on budget equipment. It is probably occurring in your sound card. What is happening is t...

Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O (Audacity 1.2.x)
Edit menu > Preferences > Devices (Audacity 1.3.x)

What does it say?

Help menu > About Audacity > version?

Sorry, but without more information there is little anyone can do or say to help you.

Make sure that you only use alphanumeric characters in the file name and try again.
(Space, hyphen and underscore are also OK, but other special characters can create illegal file names that your computer will refuse to write).

Audacity version?
Your settings in Audacity Preferences?

Are you sure the recording source (the thing you are trying to record) is OK?
What is the recording source?

I presume you are on Windows?
Perhaps Vista?

You need to find the sound card's mixer and set the correct recording input and recording level. You will probably find it via a loudspeaker icon near the system Time/date. If not, look in the Windows Control Panel (sounds and audio devices).

I have trolled the forums, FAQ, Tips & Tutorials yet I cannot figure out why they are looking like these pictures: No cigar for you guys ;) If you look at the vertical scale on the track, it is showing "dB" This is the "Waveform (dB)" view of the track. Most audio programs s...

I've not tried Karmic yet, so can only offer limited assistance. Setting up the correct settings for PulseAudio is usually the hardest bit. See this topic for some suggestions - read the whole topic as some of the information at the beginning is out of date, but corrected later in the thread. http:/...