Audacity Forum

JeepNut wrote:There is no .audacity-cfg file. No files are created in the user path at all.

the file is called audacity.cfg
It is not normally in: /usr/
it is usually in: ~/.audacity-data

That's a hidden folder in your "Home" directory.

Installed Audacity 1.3.6 on Xubuntu 8.04
The GUI for the compressor effect looks like this:

Check that JACK is not running (stop it if it is).
Delete the audacity.cfg from ~/.audacity-data

then try opening Audacity.

though I no longer get "Stereo" as an option in the Audacity Toolbar drop-down list, "What U Hear" seems to have replaced it, "What U Hear" is exactly the same as "Stereo Mix". Creative Labs (who make SB cards) have always called it "What U Hear". a...

The "Tips" and "Tutorials" in the Audacity wiki (link at top of page) are a very good place to get started in Audacity. Everyone should have a quick read of these:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tips
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

Have you tried a dedicated Instant Messaging/VoIP recorder like Voice Emotion ? I think that will be the way to go. Everyone seems to have trouble recording from VOIP, even when recording "Stereo Mix" works in all other respects. It seems that VOIP applications do things to the sound syst...

but now the level is pretty low in the program. I can do a select-all and choose amplify, and in this one case it applied a '6.0' gain to the whole recording and it sounded great. That sounds like you have the input gain about right. If your recording peak level is at -6dB, then that should be clos...

Do you want to give a bit more information?
What exactly is this phono/USB cable that you have?
Are you using Vista?
Have you checked in the Windows Control Panel as per the instructions on the Vista page of the wiki?

When I import an audio file (mp3) into a new track and try to copy and paste part of it into another track, the speed of the inserted portion changes...sometimes faster, sometimes slower. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? You are copying audio data that is at one sample rate and pasting it into a ...

Do a search on the Audacity wiki (link at top of page) for USB
Also if you are using Vista, look that up as well - there's some information that is specific to Vista.