Audacity Forum

CD quality WAV files are about 10 MB per minute. Compressing as mp3 you can't go above about 10:1 compression for reasonable sound quality (for music), although you can double this for mono. If you're not bothered about some loss of quality you could go to about 40:1 in mono (LAME quality setting=0 ...

A couple of tips about reducing the natural room reverb; 1) Placing the microphone closer to the person talking will increase the amount of direct sound. so giving a relative reduction in room ambiance. When the microphone gets very close there are a couple of things to watch out for though: a) you ...

record the tape into audacity as a stereo track Click on the track name and select "Split Stereo Track" from the drop down menu Click on the name of one track and set it to mono, then repeat with the other track Use the time shift tool to drag the line feed track about 30 ms to the right. ...

The noise removal effect is buggy on Linux - best solution I can offer is to try the Gnome Wave Cleaner (which is a more comprehensive tool anyway). http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ Since you've managed to compile Audacity with Jack support, could you post a walkthrough of how to do it - I don't think su...

Try using ALSA instead of OSS.

Import the mp3 back into Audacity and see if it plays. If it does, then you have probably selected an mp3 format that is not supported by your media player. If it is silent in Audacity, then you probably did something wrong when you were exporting - possibly you used "Export Selection" ins...

Alternatively is there a way of setting Audacity so that it does not introduce unwanted control points when you turn on the envelope tool? If you have a track in Audacity and you select the envelope tool, there will be no control points on the track until you click on the track with the envelope to...

Are you able to get it to work with any mp3's (not made with Audacity). If you can, then it may be that the phone only supports certain mp3 formats (mono/stereo, bit rate, VBR/CBR). Audacity provides presets for the most commonly used music mp3 formats, but if you require something different then yo...

"Effects > Truncate Silence"

You could try going into the Windows Control Panel and from the "Classic View" select "Sounds and Audio Devices". Go to the "Audio" tab and select the lexicon alpha as your recording device. If this option is not available then Windows is not aware that it is a recordin...