Audacity Forum

If you are using tracks, or parts of tracks from CD's, you need to have the audio (Aiff, or wav) on your hard drive before you import into Audacity. Audacity does not necessarily copy the entire audio into the data folder, it also uses "pointers" to files, so the audio that you are process...

Father Brian wrote:This morning, those same tracks are opening as 1-channel mono. Audacity Preferences Audio I/O Recording Channels setting is 2 (Stereo).

Well that's just blown out my first idea

Are you able to upload one of the offending tracks somewhere so we can see if it's anything to do with the file?

If you have more than one hard drive, or more than one partition, make sure that the temporary files are being saved on the partition with plenty of space.
(Edit->Preferences->Directories)

To hear your acoustic guitar while you are recording it: Method 1) Turn the headphones down to a lower volume so that you can hear the guitar (this is the better method for the health of your hearing) :) Method 2) If you're using Windows and are recording via the "line in" socket, go into ...

The effect (just tried the standalone version) is awesome (Audacious!), but I've no idea what one would do with the patch.

There is no version "specifically" for ME, but according to this page: http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows 1.3.4 should work using the "Windows 98/ME" installer.

There may be a quicker way than this, but this will give you a genuine mono mix: 1) Click on the name of the track and Select "Split stereo track" 2) Click on the name of the upper track and select "Mono" 3) Repeat step 2 for the other track 4) Press [Ctrl]+A (to select All) 5) C...

A lot of CD writing software (including Nero) will by default create a short gap between tracks - you need to set the gap between tracks to 0. (note that the first track must always have a short gap before it starts, but that doesn't matter since it is the first track). Also, set your CD writing sof...

There's post about how to set up latency correction here:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... 5535#p5562

If you are using Audacity 1.2.6 try setting up the Equaliser similar to in this picture by drawing the blue line: eq.gif What this does is to cut the very low bass (below 100 Hz), then boost low frequencies (100 to 800 Hz) then progressively reduce higher frequencies. If the result sound muffled, th...