Audacity Forum

Audacity doesn't support Windows Media WMA files. There is experimental support for WMA files in 1.3.7 beta. It requires that you have a very recent version of ffmpeg installed and working on your machine. (Just spent a large part of last weekend getting it to work on my Linux computer, but now it ...

I have been testing out some of the features available in the cvs source. One interesting feature is an option to use "Secret Rabbit Code" (aka libsamplerate) instead of the usual libresample for handling sample rate conversion. The alternative code seems to be very good, but I cannot do d...

Now that I want it, I can't find the earlier versions. I swear there was a link on the main download page. Have a browse through this lot: http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?group_id=6235&words=file_name%3A(%2Baudacity)&type_of_search=files&pmode=0&limit=50 (forum does not like...

- Pressed 'Play' button on windows media player - Pressed 'Record' button on Audacity. You know that you can Import audio files? In Audacity 1.3.x it is in the File menu, in Audacity 1.2.x I think it may be in the Tracks menu but I can't remember for sure. Also see here: http://audacityteam.org/help/

Now, if you're on a Windows machine, you can mess up the Sound Control Panel to the point where you record everything in the computer all smashed together. That's not most people's idea of multi-channel. Windows users call this "Stereo Mix" or "What U Hear". Linux users call it ...

Go to the download page on the Audacity web site and find the "alternate downloads" link. That will take you to Audacity downloads on the Sourceforge web site. Then use the search facility (a general term such as "audacity" should bring up every version ever released). By the way...

In Audacity 1.3 there is an effect called "Truncate Silence" that will do this.
(the threshold must be set higher than the maximum sound level in the "dead air" parts).

Can you describe the method that you used (step by step) to make the recording.

Audacity can only record from one device at a time.

What version of Audacity are you using? What is your operating system (including Service Packs). What is your computer? How much free disk space do you have on your C: drive? How much free RAM is available (real RAM, not counting swap file). When did you last defragment your hard drive? When did you...