Audacity Forum

Assuming that you want to create the same amount of silence each time... 1) select the place for the first bit of silence and generate silence 2) Ctrl+E (zoom to selection) 3) Ctrl+3 (zoom out a bit) - alternatively if you have a wheel mouse you can use Ctrl+wheel. 4) Ctrl+C (copy the selected silen...

i wonder if im the only problem with this..... Probably. i DO export them to the desk top...thats where they get deleted... When do they get deleted? When you Export the MP3, can you see the file on your desktop? Does it play in your usual media player? Can you copy it/move it to another location?

I suspect that the problem occuring at the time that you installed Audacity is coincidence (yes they do happen occasionally). does audacity do anything to modify/adjust existing Vista audio API or points to different set of DLL's or something? Audacity accesses your audio hardware using the standard...

I got a mate whos an electrician to rewire a laptop ac power adapter taking the earth out (I have a surge protector don’t worry) and the interference disappeared (Sweet! ;) ). Hopefully you mean that you have a RCD trip switch. Disconnecting the Earth from any appliance is not recommended (and will...

Audacity is not brilliant for working with loops, but there is still quite a lot of stuff that we can do: Audacity will play the currently selected region provided that start "Play" from a condition of "Stop". If you "Pause" then adjust, or simply adjust the region whil...

For one option, see here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10881 Alternatively you could manually cut out some short bits, for example by reducing the length of any silences. You may be able to do this with "Truncate Silence" from the Effects menu (Audacity 1.3 and la...

Make sure that you export to a location that you have permission to write to. For example, Export to "My Documents" or to the Desktop.

Yes, but if you change the tempo by more than about 10% you will start to hear a deterioration in the sound quality. The more you change the tempo the lower the sound quality.
Effects menu > Change Tempo

See here: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... mputer#Mac

Is this posted on the correct message board? I thought that FFmpeg support only came in with Audacity 1.3