Audacity Forum

A word of caution about the red "clipping" lines. They do not indicate that the audio IS clipped, only that it "may" be clipped (is "probably" clipped). If a sample value is exactly at 0 dB, then a red clip line will appear. Because of this, even after amplifying to 0 d...

How would you go about applying attenuation with Audacity? With the "Amplify" effect. People tend to think of "amplifying" as "increasing" the level, but that is only "positive amplification". You can also amplify by a negative amount, which reduces the level...

I want to ask how the upscaling from 16 to 32 is done lossless It's probably easiest, and sufficient, to think of this by way of analogy. Say you are measuring something that is about one metre long, and your tape measure is marked in centimetres. From the tape measure, you write down the answer. S...

you're saying because of how audacity internally does its stuff, samples are still modified in the process right? Yes. The conversion from 16-bit to 32-bit is perfect (completely lossless). Any mixing or processing that you do benefits from the extremely high precision of 32-bit float. The "pr...

liafail wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:42 pm

I opened an AMR file, took some time to open, but then played the file with no problem.

Does that file still work in Audacity? Can you still import it into Audacity?

There are basically two ways to keep audio and labels synchronised while editing. The first way is to ensure that you manually select both the audio track and the label track before cutting / pasting. Example: 1) Tracks000.png 2) Tracks001.png 3) Tracks002.png The other way is to use the "Sync-...

At the moment you have a very complex setup. For trouble shooting purposes, we need to simplify so that we can narrow down the problem.

Does your computer have a built-in microphone?

I have deinstalled 2.3.2 an reinstall 2.1.2 but cannot record! So it would appear that updating Audacity was not the problem. Any Ideas? Change the "host" setting back to "MME" in the Device Toolbar https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/device_toolbar.html (The WASAPI setting is g...

caleb.parson wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:52 pm

I have to quit all other programs including my browser

Why is that? What happens if your browser is open?

You've been lucky because the "automatic gain control" (often called "AGC", but sometimes has other names such as "automatic level" or similar) was also turned on. This has mostly (but not entirely) saved the recording from "clipping" distortion. If the record...