Audacity Forum

You first need to turn the track into a stereo track.
See here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8658

On your desktop (for Windows in the bottom right corner near the clock) you should find a loudspeaker icon from which you can open up either the Windows Mixer, or a custom Sound Card Control Panel. Use that to select and enable your recording source. Note that on some modern machines there is a seco...

so there's actually 3 "files" (that's the best word I can think of to use) for each saved recording - title_data; title.aup.bak; and an audacity project. When you save an Audacity project there are 2 parts: A file > filename.aup A folder > filename_data Yes these do work together. The &qu...

Devadaru wrote:In 1.2.6, I would export multiple tracks, setting the filename as "Lecture Title track no. " and it would fill in the track no. consecutively, and set the metadata title to the same thing.

I'm using Audacity 1.3.7 on Linux and this does work.

I wonder if infact a 16bit file padded to 24bit would show samples below -96dB? What does it technically mean when a 16bit file is padded to 24bit? If you record from a 16 bit device then each sample is in the range of 0000000000000000 (0 in decimal) and 1111111111111111 (131071 in decimal). Each s...

It's been getting pretty bad here as well - lots of "500 Server Error"s

Thursday 12th Feb 5.30pm GMT to Friday 13th 2.00am GMT I was unable to access the forum, and by the small number of new posts it looks like I was not the only one to have trouble.

Notice the difference in the positions of the individual samples in a 32 bit track compared to a 16 bit track:

thunderstick wrote:The audio file graphic range still goes well below -145 (for 16 & 24bit files)

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Perhaps you could post a screen shot to illustrate.

dougvl wrote:I found this thread while looking for a stereo dubbing cable with level reducing adapter for use with the MIC input, but haven't found one yet.

There are instructions on how to make one here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5080

I'm not at all surprised that 1.2.x versions do not work. None of your hardware had been invented when 1.2.x was written. I am however surprised that 1.3.7 does not work.