Audacity Forum

I've not had this problem myself, though I did experience several issues with Audacity 1.3.7 - I am now using Audacity 1.3.8 alpha (from cvs) and it runs beautifully - There have been a lo of bug fixes, and I think I would go as far as to say that it is the best version of Audacity so far. You can d...

It's not protected, but it is slightly malformed. If you use VLC to convert it to WAV, then you will able to edit the WAV in Audacity. (The first thing you will probably want to do is to sort out the huge amount of DC offset - run it through a high-pass filter set to a very low frequency, say around...

I have no idea how to turn that off, but several people have reported this "when it feels like it" effect and some of them have found ways to get rid of it. The problem is that often there are microphone effects that get in the way, but how you switch these off varies from one machine to ...

I'm on Ubuntu 8.10 - the default install directory for the distro version of Audacity is /USR so I use the following:

For importing, Audacity natively supports "Microsoft PCM WAV", Aiff, MP3, Ogg and FLAC. I would suspect that the files that you are trying to import are either not real WAV/MP3 files, or are damaged. There is a free program called "MediaInfo" that can analyse audio files and prov...

Not really answering your question, but thought you may be interested. By default Audacity uses libresample, but may be compiled to use libsamplerate. Note that there was a bug in Audacity that only allowed the slower high quality setting to be used (reducing multi-track performance in Audacity), bu...

While libsamplerate looks good in terms of quality, there appears to be a bug in its implementation in Audacity that means that performance may be dramatically affected. If there are audio tracks in a project that are at a different sample rate to the project rate, the number of tracks that can be ...

I've gotten a new computer (which runs on Vista) and have downloaded 1.3.7 just like I had on my other computer. The problem is, I'm trying to record audio that's playing from my computer, so I need the stereo mixer... can anyone tell me where the hell it is? It seems to be a totally different set ...

vertsk8r wrote:When I click to record I am able to record what I want and it plays it back beautifully, but as soon as I click the record button all I get is very loud static,

Sorry I don't understand what you mean - could you have another go at explaining (more words may be needed).

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and Audacity 1.3.8 alpha, so I can assure you that upgrading Audacity is possible.
When building from source, getting all of the dependencies sorted out is a bit of a pain, but once that is done upgrading is very straightforward.