Audacity Forum

[email protected] wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:06 pm

but I need to know exactly what to delete.

To "reset" Audacity, open the hidden folder:
C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Roaming\audacity\
and delete the three files:

• audacity.cfg
• pluginsettings.cfg
• pluginregistry.cfg

Hi thanks, so I've located this setting and it does appear to be the problem, but the option is greyed out, so I'm unable to change it. Any idea how to get round this? Unfortunately, Microsoft keep making it more difficult to make these settings. I think the information on this page is up to date: ...

Rick_Loll wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:40 pm

Could you be so kind, as to this as a new feature?

It's already on the developer's todo list.

Rick_Loll wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:40 pm

And adding to this, Export Selected, to the Macros too?

Use the "Trim Audio" command to extract the part that you want, then export, then "Undo" to restore the trimmed audio.

Audacity does batch processing with "Macros": https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

I don't see anything that does real traditional batch processing, on multiple files at once. I'm also trying to multi export thus and it's not listed in the macros. What do you mean by "real traditional batch processing"? Do you know of some other application that does "multi export&...

See here in the manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

Doing hundred of edits in a row, it seems rather stupid, I can't shut this notice off. Rather stupid, until the one time that you have an important, once in a lifetime recording and forget to save before quitting Audacity. The developers believe (correctly in my opinion) that safety is more importa...

Because no-one has written the code to do that yet.

I get the erasing process - what I would like to do is record over just a short section of an existing file without losing everything after the short section. Can that be done? You can remove the part that you want to replace with "Split Delete" (Alt+Ctrl+K) https://manual.audacityteam.or...

Wow, this is an old thread. Nyquist has evolved quite a lot over the last 9 years. Here's an updated version using "version 4" syntax. I've commented everything to explain what each code line does: ;nyquist plug-in ;version 4 ;type process ;name "Soft zeroing" ;action "Do th...