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By using the Zoom H2n you are introducing a needless step into the chain - as good as the H2n is (I've owned one). I would either go line-in to your PC (RCA phono to 3.5mm Jack) or RCA phono to USB. I think that rather depends on the PC. The "sound card" in my laptop is rubbish, whereas t...

So why not use OGG or FLAC?

While there are plenty of situations where we must use SETF rather than SETQ (such as array elements, list element, ...) I don't think there are any cases where we must use SETQ rather than SETF. I've been trying to think of cases where SETQ may make the code a bit clearer. One example I came up wit...

For standard XLISP functions, the XLISP manual is the best reference. I would highly recommend bookmarking the "Language Reference" page: https://www.audacity-forum.de/download/edgar/nyquist/nyquist-doc/xlisp/xlisp-ref/xlisp-ref-index.htm SET Sets a symbol to a value. An important consider...

Is there a way in Nyquist to export the labels, run a shell script on the exported label file and then import it back? The Audacity version of Nyquist cannot run a shell script. (It was considered too much of a security risk to allow Nyquist to run arbitrary system commands). You can export and imp...

Am I the only one with that issue. We've seen a few reports of Audacity 3.x running very slowly for a few people. The Audacity developers are investigating the issue, but we are unable to reproduce the problem and so far we don't know why it happens. I was recommended to download an older version (...

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Thu May 20, 2021 9:30 pm

When starting Audacity from Blender

How are you doing that?

presumably it was caused by writing into a folder with an apostrophe Yes, that's correct. Audacity "should" have been escaping the single-quote character, but it wasn't doing that, and that caused "compaction" to fail. Normally Audacity should remove unused data from the project...

The "How to get help" screen can be disabled in Preferences: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/interface_preferences.html Messages relating to unsaved projects or similar can't be disabled - it may be the one and only chance to save previous work. This type of message should not occur if...

How often do you update Windows?
In recent versions of Windows 10 it is necessary to give applications permission to access the microphone.
See: "Why can't I record in Windows?"