Audacity Forum

p;eter wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:10 pm

first I open a file (backing track) that goes well.

Do you mean that you import the backing track into Audacity and then you can hear it when you click "Play"?

Is this the same problem as this one: viewtopic.php?p=398200#p398200

I suspect that the problem is the USB headset. I assume that your computer's sound card is "Realtek". Is that correct? If so, then "Stereo Mix" for the Realtek device will record whatever is playing through the Realtek sound card. It won't record sound playing through any other d...

rexroamer wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 20, 2020 2:00 pm

When I try to create a new recording, I hit "record" - and nothing. Zip. Nada. Nuttin'.

I appreciate that you say "nothing happens", but does the green triangle at the left end of the Timeline turn red?

See my post here: viewtopic.php?p=398213#p398213

The cause of the problem is known. The unknown part is why it causes display problems on some machines and not others. Another symptom of the same root cause in Audacity 2.4.1 is (and this affects users that don't have the display problem): 1. Create an audio track 2. "View menu > Track Size > ...

I'm not familiar with 'seewave', but I looked at this page on their website: http://rug.mnhn.fr/seewave/spec.html Using the audio example "Xeno-Canto", which I recorded into Audacity, I switch the track to "spectrogram" view, then adjusted the settings from the track's drop-down ...

Click the "Mute" button on the tracks that you don't want to hear.

The safe way to change the name of the project is with Audacity:
1. Open the project
2. "File menu > Save Project > Save Project As..." and enter the new name.

For more information, see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/aud ... jects.html

The AUP file should be called "IntroPartOne.aup" and the data folder should be called "IntroPartOne_data". This is where the information comes from - opening the AUP file in a plain text editor shows this (I have highlighted the relevant part): <?xml version="1.0" stand...