Audacity Forum

Try resetting Audacity preferences according to this guide: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_Preferences#Resetting_Preferences_to_defaults Be careful if you are on Windows - if you make a mistake in the Windows registry you can cause lots of problems (use the "Safe Solution...

Unfortunately the time line display cannot be changed (unless you are a programmer and hack the code). I can see real advantages in what you are asking for, particularly if you were also able to "Snap to beats". It would of course be necessary for the user to be able to set the bpm and num...

I'm still working out the relationship between GB and minutes using 16 v. 32 bit. The way that I remember this is that I know that CDRs are about 700MB, and an audio CD are up to about 70 minutes duration, so that's around 10MB per minute. CDs use 16bit audio with a sampling rate of 44100Hz stereo....

Windows Mixer - Recording settings. Line-in selected.

Select "Preferences" in the Windows Mixer and make sure that ALL inputs are visible.
The ONLY input that should be enabled for recording is the Line-in

Does the problem only occur with that particular Eq curve? If so, find the "EQCurves.xml" file (it may be a hidden file), make a zip file from it and attach it to your post (the forum will hopefully allow it as an attachment).

xtroce wrote:thanks, i was searching for something similar,but it's really hard to find sound analysis tools.

Have you had a look at http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/

Sorry, I can't help with the code, I'm not a programmer.

1) Download Audacity 1.3.7 from here: http://audacityteam.org/beta/audacity-win-unicode/audacity-win-unicode-1.3.7.exe 2) Download Lame from here: http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/lame_enc.dll 3) Double click on the downloaded "audacity-win-unicode-1.3.7.exe" file and install Audacity 1.3.7 4) Lo...

Do a test recording with the recording format set to 16bit 44100Hz
(Edit menu > Preferences > Quality tab)
What's the outcome?

Best guess from the information given:
"Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab" the "Playback Device" is set wrong.

Audacity is very much a GUI based application. About the only thing that you can do with it from the command line is to open a file. I think you need to be looking for a different program.