Audacity Forum

I find this Forum very difficult to use. Its taken me ages to find out how to post this message. Congratulations, you have succeeded. I have windows XP. The input is greyed out so I can't select mic. This is a very common problem with Vista, but can sometimes also occur with XP (and other operating...

This is the "Audacity" forum. "Audacious" is a completely different program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacious_Media_Player

Have you successfully recorded? Does the recording play in Audacity before you try to Export?

will not close despite many effforts Click on "Edit > Preferences" and select the "Interface" tab. Make sure that "Quit Audacity upon closing last window" is selected. For general information about Audacity file types (Exporting audio, saving projects and so on), see h...

There is a LADSPA vocoder plug-in that works well with Audacity (I don't personally recommend VST effects for Audacity as a lot of people have problems with them, and most effects can be produced with LADSPA or Nyquist effects, both of which Audacity supports much better than VST). Go to this page a...

See the "Interface" tab in "Preferences".
Untick the box for "Automatically fit tracks vertically zoomed".

There's also a plug-in called "Fast look ahead limiter" that can help create loud recordings. It "clips" the tops of loud peaks, but gently so that it does not sound distorted, and the track can then be "Amplified" or "Normalized" to a higher level. The "...

SUPER by erightsoft is a free audio converter that supports a huge range of audio formats and allows you to convert them to WAV format. Also, FooBar2000 is an excellent free audio player that can convert file formats.

Thanks for posting your findings TomGeorge. I ultimately found ALSA: default works for both input and output. Yes, "ALSA default" is usually the best option on Linux systems. Usually this setting is chosen by Audacity from first installation, for anyone else with the same problem, you shou...

For more information about Audacity projects, read this: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... ement_Tips