Audacity Forum

All of my MP3 files have mysteriously shifted to an unchangeable property Available Offline and now I am unable to play them. P.S. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am using Windows 8 and the latest version of audacity. This is nothing to do with Audacity. A lot of common audio formats will say &qu...

There is also some kind of squeaky distortion near the start, which I assume is compression damage. However some people who had audio tracks not starting at zero found that the Audacity exports added distortions. Either way, you and I can hear the ticks in the SoundCloud example. So the damage is in...

2.0.6-alpha As I understand it, 2.0.6-alpha has newly written recovery tools No, it merely fixes the issue that a saved project that had a track or clip containing 2^31 samples or more of audio would reopen with silenced audio and all the audio block files would be reported as "orphans". ...

Was the problem that the WAV sounded too slow? If so, did you use Set Rate > 384000 Hz in the Track Drop-Down Menu as suggested? How do I make the audio recovery process 384000 Hz? Was the problem that the WAV sounded too slow? You can't make the recovery work in 384000 Hz. The recovery WAV will be...

I, too, am having the same problem with Audacity on my 13" mid 2013 MacBook Air. Which version of Audacity exactly? Please see the pink panel at the top of this page. As an example, the audio from our radio show today--went out live on-air clean. Was clean on the MP3 recording device. When I d...

What and who are "Preferences" for? Why do we have the current limit of "no more preferences"? We currently have a Catch 22 in that proposed features cannot be implemented unless optional, but we are so afraid of "Preferences creep" that new preference are not allowed....

I should add that Audacity won't compile against higher than FFmpeg 0.8. If you already have a later FFmpeg version than that, it may be simpler just to use FFmpeg at the command-line to convert the M4A file to WAV for usage in Audacity. ffmpeg -i filename.m4a filename.wav will produce a 44100 Hz 16...

Probably you could create a script for use in SoX (it has a -c option to specify number of channels which you would invoke in the output part of the command).

Gale

The option referred to is a standard Chain from the File drop down, choose "Apply Chain" and then there is "Stereo .WAV" There is no Chain called "Stereo. WAV" shipped in Audacity supplied by us, so it must be one added by yourself. The issue at hand is that the source...

You gave "M4V" for the file extension, hence I thought it might be a video file without audio. The M4A extension is correct for a file containing AAC audio. Thanks for the screenshot which makes clear that the Audacity build does not have FFmpeg support compiled in (but can export MP3 file...