Audacity Forum

What happens when you close Audacity - is the memory released?

In the current versions of Audacity, this does not work. Just put them in a folder anywhere and make a link somewhere convenient. Once you have been using Audacity for a couple of weeks you probably won't need the help files anyway. Hopefully version 1.4 (when it is released) will have the help file...

If possible, record as WAV, edit in Audacity and Export as WAV so that you have a high quality recording, then Export an MP3 version as the last step. If you need to do any further editing, or need to compress to a different kbps, you can do it from your WAV file. Every time that you decode / encode...

Audacity 1.3.4 (different in 1.2.6); "File > Export" Select "Ogg" as the file type. Click on "Options" Slide the "Quality" slider to zero. Click "OK" Click "Save" (If you are using Audacity 1.2.x, I recommend that you try 1.3 - there's a fe...

BUT I thought you were going to use the extract from Shared Solitude which I recorded specially, Yes indeed I have been using that and getting some good results. However, I switched over to Windows (My machine is dual boot Win XP / Linux Xubuntu) so that I could test the scripts in a Windows enviro...

If you play around with "Effects > Truncate Silence", you can get it to cut out all the gaps between words, making you a very fast talker, but the remaining audio is virtually untouched. You will need to mess around with the settings to find the right combination, but it does work. (You ne...

I'm somewhat surprised by that "1-2 second delay" - "software playthrough" causes a noticeable delay, but if that is already off then it's a bit of a mystery. It may be worth giving Audacity 1.3 (beta) a go - it's considerably more up to date than 1.2.6.

waxcylinder wrote:hence my question to the poster above about how he was configuring

Yes I read that - he replied that he was going direct into the sound card (hence my response)

At the moment it sounds like there is no signal coming out of the minidisk player, but we'll have to wait to hear back from deniz666uk.

This "speeding up" effect works by cutting out parts of the audio, and cross fading the parts that remain. There are many things that affect the quality of this effect, but the main thing is how much change you are trying to make. Small changes in tempo only cut out small bits of data, and...

Which exact version are you using? (1.3.0 - 1.3.6)