Audacity Forum

but told me that there were 174 bad entries ..... all associated with SpyWare Detector. Another set of phantoms or what? I don't know enough about Spyware doctor to be able to comment on this, but there is a frequent issue that occurs when using more than one anti-virus or anti spyware program at t...

My question is- is limiting damaging the sound? Short answer is YES. All forms of compression/limiting "damage" the sound in the sense that it resembles the original recording less closely than it did before. However, that is not to say that it is "bad". I regularly use hard lim...

in this beta version, the whole program Exits, instead of closing the current project. That is the default action and is strongly recommended. While Audacity remains open, all temporary files and memory usage from previous projects remain and can cause your computer to run out of disk space or RAM ...

Open Audacity and look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Directories".

MP3's do not have that ability. However, you could use a series of individual MP3 files, and publish a playlist so that when someone downloads and plays the playlist, it will load each mp3 as required and display the information associated with that MP3 file.

You should find most of the information in the "Tutorials" (see link at top of page).

For Vista, use the latest 1.3 version, but read this before installing: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS

With the most recent versions of Audacity on Linux, if you try to use the wrong version of Lame, it is simply not recognised.

Audacity is not (and never has been) distributed with ASIO support. (Audacity is prevented from including ASIO support in the compiled binary files due to licensing restrictions). However, for most ASIO devices there are also Windows drivers (WDM drivers) available. These should work with Audacity. ...

In "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab", the option for "software playthrough" should NOT be selected.

Removing the VST bridge plug-in from Audacity should enable Audacity and Sound Soap to co-exist (though you will then be unable to use any VST effects in Audacity -though with the hundreds of free Ladspa and Nyquist plug-ins available that should not be too much of an issue)