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I'm surprised that the TV station does not do this for you, but yes you can do it in Audacity 1.3. To limit the peak level to -12dB while keeping quieter sounds at a reasonable level is in 2 stages: 1) Use "Chris's dynamic compressor" to even out the peak levels and raise the volume of the...

OK, there's a quicker method - this is based on the fact that recording from a mono source will produce 2 identical channels in the stereo track: 1) Click on the name of the track and select "Split Stereo Track" 2) Delete one of the tracks ([X] in the upper left corner of the track) 3) Cli...

Oops - I forgot about your question
I'll dig out my 1.2.6 version and get back to you in a couple of minutes.

Probably too early for 2. and too late of 1.34 You may be lucky - I'm not sure what the release date will be, but it's not far away. No new features are being added to Audacity now - it's all about stability and smoothing any rough corners that are found. Several features from the "Experimenta...

Many PC laptop computers do not have a "Line in". Most have a microphone input, but that's about 1000 x too sensitive (and often only mono), and some have an audio input that can switch from microphone level to line level. It is only usually Mac laptops that have a proper line level input,...

I have a slightly different problem. My laptop comes with a built-in integrated microphone, and I am trying to record me playing the piano without the mic. When I playback what I just recorded, it sounds very static-like and the waves on the track are square, looking as if it was too loud. Also, i ...

Thanks, that's very clear now. MP3 is a type of file compression called "lossy compression". What MP3 encoding does is to throw away some of the audio data (some of the "less important" information) and then squash the remaining bits tight together, thus making the file size (and...

Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab Set the number of recording channels to "1 (Mono)". Audacity 2.0 (stable) is due out a bit later in the year. On my Windows machine I use Audacity 1.3.4 which I find very stable (rock solid). On my main (Linux) computer I have both Audacity 1.3.7 (th...

I have a song that is, believe it or not, ripped at 16 kbps D: while the rest of the songs on that album are ripped at a comfy 192 kbps. After following all the appropriate instructions for changing the bit rate of a file, after I encode/export as MP3 to my computer, not only do I not notice even a...

Try the latest version of Audacity in case this is a bug that has been fixed. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... s_Binaries