Audacity Forum

I am trying to enable leveler, but it is impossible for me, it cannot be enabled The Leveler effect has been retired (it is no longer included with Audacity). For evening out levels (the purported purpose of the Leveler effect), use the "Limiter" effect: https://manual.audacityteam.org/ma...

Thanks for the feedback about Flatpak Neil. Good to hear that it is at least mostly working.

Actually figured it out in the end. Just needed to change the speaker to "samplerate" (see screenshot)... whatever that means Well done figuring that out. What that means is that there is something seriously weird about the sound system for Linux apps on Chromebook. (It doesn't actually m...

Audacity does not support cover art, so any audio files exported from Audacity are guaranteed to not have embedded artwork.

donjphoto wrote: ↑

Sun May 24, 2020 11:10 pm

I deleted the C:/Audicity folder

There shouldn't be a C:/Audacity folder.

It is often not possible to remove vocals from a mix. All of the "How To" videos carefully pick a track that has mono vocals panned dead center, with instruments panned left and right. This is the "special case" where the "invert and mix" trick works. Most recordings ar...

steve wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 1:50 pm

autotools support will be removed

Update: looks like it has been removed.

I was worried that might happen. As I understand it, the next Audacity release will be pretty soon, and autotools support will be removed, so it will be totally obvious that it doesn't work. I've managed to get the Flatpak folks to transition from autotools to cmake Thanks for doing that. Do they ha...

should I export from the first project as WAV format, or can I export as M4A, without a degradation of quality? Use WAV format. M4A will degrade the quality. If quality is of overriding importance, use "32-bit float WAV". These are double the size of a normal 16-bit WAV but 32-bit float g...

I think it is something about this particular track that's messing things up. I think you are correct. There's probably a bad bit of data, and quite likely that it is only a tiny bit that is bad. If you can work out where the bad bit is, then you can probably use "Export Selected Audio" t...