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The three ".cfg" files are Audacity's configuration files. Deleting these three files (while Audacity is closed) will reset Audacity to it's factory settings. From ~/.audacity-data/ move these three files to your Desktop (or any other convenient location): audacity.cfg pluginregistry.cfg p...

This is very strange, because the test project that you posted is perfectly OK. It looks OK and I can open it without any problem. I'm not sure what the file paths will be on Arch, so you will need to check these: Look in ~/.audacity-data/ . Do you see the files: audacity.cfg pluginregistry.cfg plug...

How much free space is there in "/Users/______/"

"Pan Law" refers to how much gain is applied when a sound is panned away from centre. The track Pan control in Audacity simply reduces the level in the channel that is being panned away from - that is, when you pan to the right, the left channel is reduced and the right channel remains the...

when I look at the waveform of the track, after normalization the highest blue line doesn't reach the top/bottom of the area, there's still quite a gap to the border of the area. ... The only explanation I would have for this is, that there are very short ranges in my audio which are much louder th...

"Plot Spectrum" measures the sound, spread across multiple frequency ranges ("frequency bins"). The amplitude measured by Plot Spectrum, will be about the same as the peak amplitude, if the sound is all in one "frequency bin". If the sound falls into multiple frequency ...

Wayne62279 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:40 pm

I keep getting an error

and the error is?

Select a region of an audio track where you want the pulsating tone,
then apply this code in the "Nyquist Prompt" effect (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_prompt.html)

orlando wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:27 pm

Is this a bug?

Yes.
I think it occurred as the result of something else being updated.

I'm trying to get Audacity to record four independent mono channels simultaneously, but instead it records one stereo channel and two mono channels. Currently, the only option is to record like that, then split the stereo track into two mono tracks after you have recorded (https://manual.audacityte...