Audacity Forum

Audacity 1.3.7 in the Ubuntu Jaunty repository works well on Jaunty with both Pulse and with Jack. (hooray )
Unfortunately, the patches they have used do not work on Audacity 1.3.8 alpha, so I'm hoping someone can fix this before Audacity 1.4 is released.

I have run Audacity 1.3.7 (or 1.3.8 alpha) in Linux, and Audacity 1.2.6 (Windows version) in "Wine", and they run quite happily at the same time. I've also run Audacity (various versions) on various operating systems in VirtualBox, and again no problem other than some Microsoft OS's run ra...

Keep backups while you work by regularly exporting individual tracks as WAV files.
If you find the error starts to occur regularly, let us know and we'll have a look at it. Chances are that it was just a one off. Reinstalling Audacity rarely solves anything.

Audacity uses Libsoundtouch. A good place to start your search would probably be here: http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/ There is a basic introduction in the README http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/README.html For more detailed information you will probably need to study the source code and examples...

"My [project/song/clip] plays at an inconsistent speed" is usually caused by a poor quality, or faulty, clock chip on the sound card. In this case the only solution is to upgrade the sound card as it is a hardware fault. Occasionally similar effects can be produced by poorly written sound ...

A WARNING! Just few days ago I downloaded Audacity from http://audacityteam.org/ in order to install into friend's PC ... and of course mp3 lame codec from the link http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ as suggested from initial Audacity page. Unfortunately the lame wouldn't install due to a embedded trojan a...

You should be able to run both the Windows version and the Mac version simultaneously with no mushroom cloud.
As far as each version is concerned, the other version is on a different computer.

miltk wrote:I thought maybe some treble and less bass, but there are no such effects on the menu.

Use the "Equalizer" effect - bass is to the left, treble to the right, and lots of steps in between.

(this is in addition to Koz's comments)

Update:

Nyquist has been updated in Audacity 1.3.8 alpha, and things seem to work in a more logical fashion, so now scales the sound first, then applies clipping.