Audacity Forum

Try setting the recording input level at max and lowering tape volume so that it won't clip. How different does that sound? Did it improve?

And configuration file is not deleted when you uninstall audacity. So if it's a problem with the configuration file, reinstalling audacity won't do any difference... reseting the configuration file will... Configuration files for most apps are often created upon the first run of the app. Usually the...

- Install the drivers for you preamp. - Connect it to your computer (firewire right?). - Open Audacity and go to Preferences -> Devices -> Recording - If the first two steps were successful you should have your preamp listed in the recording devices list. If not, tell us what is your operating syste...

xerond, audacity is an immensly complex program with thousands of lines of code, which wouldn't be easy to mess around even if you were an experienced programmer. My suggestion is definitely 'do not go that way'. There are probably a trillion better and easier ways of achieving what you want. Writin...

I figured out what was the problem with my "suffixed build". Looks like adding a suffix changes a lot of things, not only the binary name(*). It appears that the ~/.audacity-data directory also changes name to ~/.audacity-suffix-data. Copying my audacity.cfg file to that new directory allo...

Rincewind wrote:I really have no idea how apps. 'choose' a sound hardware device.

Most apps (if not all) allow you to select the playing device.
How you do that will vary from app to app...
For example, on VLC, go to Preferences -> Audio -> Output

I'm not sure how to answer your problem... Your available options are rather awkward... Digital input is probably not line-in nor mic-in (those should be analog inputs). Try quiting pulseaudio and run audacity on alsa only, see if you get more options. To run alsamixer on a different card type alsam...

If you or Steve can test installing Audacity with a suffix that would still be good. I ran: ./configure --program-suffix=-svn make It succesfully built but then it fails to start. If I remove the program-suffix option it builds and it starts normally. The error messages I got when starting audacity...

Ah, OK. That largely works for me with SVN HEAD. I was setting LANG in the terminal (confirming it had worked with env) and then launching Audacity from the Applications menu. Would I expect Audacity to ignore lang in that case? That will most certainly not work :) The environment variables are loa...

I did not install the svn version into anywhere I was running it from the building directory. Do I need to do a make install so it detects other languages? The only version I have (properly) installed is debian's precompiled 1.3.12. To test the effect of the env. variables I run audacity from the co...