Audacity Forum

Audacity should be running with your normal user permissions, so if you can see opusenc, then Audacity should be able to see it too.
How are you launching Audacity?

The volume level on display looks healthy during recording (between -34 and -20) That's pretty low. 0 dB corresponds to full track height. -6 dB corresponds to 1/2 the height of a track. -12 dB corresponds to 1/4 of the height of a track. -18 dB corresponds to 1/8 of the height of a track. -24 dB c...

Does opusenc encode for you from the command line (in a Terminal)? $ /usr/bin/opusenc --bitrate 64 - /path/to/myfile.opus </path/to/myfile.wav Your input and output file names appear to be the wrong way round :? This works for me on Ubuntu 18.04. The file "sample.wav" is on my Desktop. cd ...

Fritterandwaste wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:34 pm

I have an almost identical problem with a very similar keyboard (Yamaha EW400).

Check if the output level depends on the keyboard's main volume control.

I wonder I'll be capable to create some macro or script that can insert a label in an existing label track, at its beginning, stamped with its track name. I expect it is possible. You would need to create a "Nyquist Macro" (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_macros.html) in order...

Frankly I don't think you can beat a Mac. I still have mine from 2014 and it is still going strong. But if you want to use Audacity, don't upgrade to macOS 10.15 (Catalina) yet. Audacity (and many other audio apps) does not yet support Catalina. There's a list here of the support status for many po...

FLAC is good and FLAC is efficient, but how many applications outside of Audacity do you know that can open them? I'd say, "all good media players". Windows 10 now has built in support for FLAC. For older versions of Windows you can install the "Direct Show" filters from Xiph: h...

Adding my 2 cents in too: don't forget that with any recording you should always leave -6db so that if you do want to master it/ send it to a mastering plant they can then add limiters etc and your music won't clip :-) 6dB is a bit excessive, but yes you should leave some headroom if sending it for...

snowbird wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:12 am

I'm also planning on backing them all up over a network drive.

I'd definitely recommend making a ZIP archive (it will also copy across the network much faster than thousands of little files), and I'd definitely recommend checking that the checksum of the copied file matches the original.

I know that audacity projects are made up of lots of smaller files. If I want to move these projects to a different laptop, is there as good a chance as any that everything will move successfully? Assuming that: a) You retain both the ".AUP" file and the "_data" folder b) You re...