Audacity Forum

When I export a project as mp3 it asks me for that extension hit or miss - not every time. I mostly do not have to specify ".mp3" as I have mp3 selected in the Type drop-down. Please read this Frequently Asked Question for an explanation of this behaviour: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_o...

How did I reset preferences? Per Steve's instructions(dated October 10): If you are using the current Audacity 2.0.2 installer there is an option to reset preferences. Audacity 2.0.2 is available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/" As far as "audacity.cfg" is concerned, I've tried searching hig...

why both locations(the spectro itself and in preferences) have most of the same settings. Size, Log vs Linear, Type Please show me an image of where in Spectrograms Preferences you see "Log" and "Linear" choices. Compare the "size" values in Preferences and the Plot Spectum window. What do you prop...

What I am referring to is available under the "Analyze" drop-down: "Plot Spectrum" (of selected song or audio) Since yesterday when I reset preferences the Spectrogram appears it is always in default settings: Algorithm = Spectrum, Window = Hanning, Size = 512, Axis = Linear, etc. I have already be...

The FFT window(Spectrogram) does not "keep" my settings when I close Audacity and return to it later on. It depends what you mean. They type of waveform (Spectrogram(f), Waveform(dB) or whatever) is not saved in the project. The default waveform (for any tracks) can be set to one of the Spectrogram...

The mp3 I attempted to attach was only 25sec long at 128kbps, but I got a message that "mp3 format uploads are not allowed". ??? The only thing I can think is that there was something "odd" about the file - perhaps you omitted the file extension by mistake, or there was some conflict between the ex...

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The FFT window(Spectrogram) does not "keep" my settings when I close Audacity and return to it later on.

I figured out what I was doing wrong with Noise Removal and it was so stupid: Out of instinct I was typing "-15"(as in MINUS) in the noise reduction level field, instead of just 15. Thus I was inadvertantly raising the noise level instead of reducing it. Thanks for letting us know. Hmm, even enteri...

steve wrote:

TheKMan wrote: I'm an audio guy steve, not a computer person

Never mind, it could be worse, you could be a musician (like me )

And the funny thing is Steve: I was not even aware of putting the "-" in front of my value. Now I can start using some "real" noise removal values, like 20 or 30dB!

Please provide alternate instructions for me to reset preferences in Audacity , thanks. Please "read" my last post. Alright, I figured out how to do that. I'm an audio guy steve, not a computer person. The worst thing to happen to audio is computers! lol And I figured out what I was doing wrong wit...