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Ensure that some audio is selected.

You don't need "special" video apps for 8D music. "8D sound" is just stereo with lots of panning. Any video app can make "8D" video, even Microsoft Movie Maker

"8D sound" is a pseudo-scientific name that someone made up for sound that pans around a lot. (See: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-3D-8D-and-16D-sound). There are a number of panning effects for Audacity available on the Audacity wiki: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki...

you want probably use it with shipped plug-ins but unfortunately, the introduction of translated plug-ins breaks the load command: Perhaps we should modify some of the shipped plug-ins: "effect.ny" being the GUI and "effect.lsp" being the effect's processing functions, thus maki...

There will be "release candidates" of Audacity 2.4.0 alpha publicly available for testing prior to it's general release. Release candidate versions are intended only for testing purposes by users that are thoroughly familiar with Audacity (there is no user support for alpha versions). Rele...

Scroll down below the "divider line" in the Effect menu.

I'm also running Audacity-2.3.3 / Audacity 2.4.0 alpha (Ubuntu with Xfce) and I can open multiple instances and close them individually.
On closing a project that has not just been saved, I get a prompt to save the project - do you get that?

"On-demand loading" (as it was called) has been removed from Audacity, though any old saved projects that have external dependencies will still work. Too many people were losing work because of (misuse of) this feature, and with SSD's becoming so common, the benefits of "on-demand&quo...

If the samples \ minimal sample project can run perfectly without any errors, congratulations. It will succeed when you compile audacity again. Just to add: After rebuilding wxWidgets, do a complete build of Audacity from scratch - don't just try to complete a previous build, trash any previous Aud...

2) How in Windows 10 can we set Audacity to be the default program for (say) .mp3? I would not recommend doing this. Audacity isn't intended to be an audio player, it's an audio production environment. Audacity's native format is the "Audacity Project". By default, Audacity projects are a...