Audacity Forum

hellocatfood wrote:mhwavedit can do it by saving as "raw pcm data"

See the "Encoding" options in the Options pop-up and select whichever type of RAW PCM data you require.

Did you upgrade from an earlier version of 'buntu or was it a fresh install?
Is Audacity 1.3.9 an update or a first install?

To Export as RAW, select "Other uncompressed file types" in the Export dialogue, then click on the Options button.

Update to Audacity 1.3 - it runs much better on Vista. See here about using Audacity with Vista: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Windows_Vista_OS The problem you are having is probably that you have no recording inputs enabled - see here for how to enable the recording inputs: http://wi...

In Audacity 1.3.x

Edit menu > Preferences > Keyboard tab

Select "Command" and scroll down to the bottom of the list.

Set keyboard shortcuts for the last 2 options. (note that a lot of keys are already defined so you may need to redefine other keys.)

There's only one English language. Unfortunately the Audacity documentation does not use it.

Do you NEED to stay with the WAV format? You can achieve better quality and smaller file size by using OGG or MP3. A simple way to halve the file size is to convert stereo tracks to mono. I would recommend updating to Audacity 1.3 - it's probably more stable and better behaved than the old 1.2.6 &qu...

First see if you can get it to work with the supplied software - there have been reports suggesting that it can be a bit tricky getting Line 6 interfaces working correctly in Audacity, so being familiar with the interface will make the job a lot easier. External sound cards need to be connected to t...

I don't thing that 1.2 has the low-pass filters, and 1.3 has a much better graphic equaliser.
There's also loads of other enhancements to enjoy in 1.3, and it's probably more stable now than the old "stable" 1.2.6 version.

Usually the documentation lags behind the software features - in this case it seems to have got a bit ahead.