Audacity Forum

The "time track" allows you to draw an "envelope", or "continuous controller" that adjusts the playback speed. It doesn't appear to be documented on the wiki yet, but it is pretty simple to use. From the "Tracks menu" select "Add New > Time Track". T...

I have a copy of the Adobe Audition documentation (I use Adobe Audition at work) - Audacity documentation is better. More detail, more examples, way more tutorials, better on-line support. Surprising but true. The other difference is that the Adobe manual is printed on paper. I don't mind reading ma...

Outdoor sounds can be quite surprising. I remember carrying my violin to the top of a mountain so that I could hear it in that location and was quite disappointed - a complete lack of echoes, reverberation or reflections and it sounded strangely "thin". Playing in a street is somewhat diff...

Are you saying that Audacity won't work for my purposes? No, I'm saying that some new computers have the "stereo mix" option permanently disabled in the sound card drivers. If this is the case (most common on laptops using SigmaTel or RealTek HD on-board sound), then recording directly fr...

What exactly do you want to record? If it's streaming audio from a web site, you may be able to use something like WinAmps "filewriter" to write the audio directly to disk (bypassing the limitations of your soundcard). For other computer audio, you may be able to use TotalRecorder or somet...

Are you flippin' serious?! That is completely, totally, unequivocally lame with a capital L-A-M-E. I completely understand the frustration, but the Audacity developers have tried really hard to draw attention to how Audacity saves projects (how they are NOT stand-alone audio files), including a &qu...

I think this is the tutorial you are looking for: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... e_computer

Yes it does automatically look for peaks. I'm not sure about 1.2.6, but in Audacity 1.3.5 there are numbers displayed to indicate both the closest peak, and the absolute cursor position.

16 audio tracks is not bad for an off-the-shelf PC with no optimisation. The usual bottleneck is the hard drive( C:). Make sure that you have plenty of free space on the C: drive and that the disk is defragmented. Close down non-essential programs and processes, particularly anything that is disk in...

The meter toolbar is certainly a useful tool for setting up your recording - I was just unclear about what was working and what was not working. Go to the "Windows Mixer" application - you can usually open this by double clicking, or right clicking, on the loudspeaker icon next to the syst...