Audacity Forum

In the absence of PulseAudio, your sound card probably does not support multiple client applications. Is some other application using the recording device? Why don't you have PulseAudio installed?

Steamhouse wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:52 pm

but it doesn't seem to work for me

In what way does it "not work"? What happens?

There are exactly three music parts in each file (and I need the second part each time), but the lengths of the different parts differ from file to file. Therefore I can not simply cut away x seconds at the start and the end of each file. So is there a way to automate this process with a "norm...

Which version of Audacity? (look in "Audacity menu > About Audacity")

What was the error message?

I want to run this command on over 200 audio files. Do each of those files contain the same number of "music" parts? If not, then it will not be possible to do this with a "normal Macro". A normal Macro is just a list of commands. If you don't know in advance how many music part...

Why do you need to use a Macro rather than just using "Export Multiple"?

dgn1 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 10:47 am

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
I have just installed Audacity 2.3.2 from the Software Centre

The Ubuntu 18.04 repository does not have Audacity 2.3.2, it has 2.2.1
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ection=all

maor wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:32 pm

Who can you talk to here for 100%?

There is no point saying the same thing over and over again. If you haven't been given the information that you need, then you need to explain more clearly what you want.

Perhaps related to that, if I start Audacity from command line, I get the following warnings: Nothing to worry about there. Those messages are "normal". Here is the "deviceinfo.txt" file. That's interesting. According to the device info, you don't have any recording devices and ...

The files I'm importing have no metadata, If they have no metadata, then they should not change the project's metadata. I cannot reproduce this issue. Is there just no way to set a default metadata tags to auto load when exporting any files like before? When was "before"? There have been ...