Audacity Forum

i used audacity a while. Now i need the Analyze -> Silence Finder... function. On OSX Sierra its missing. Which version exactly of Sierra? See Apple Menu > About This Mac... . Is Generate > Pluck... and Effect > Adjustable Fade... also missing? If so, ensure at Audacity > Preferences..., Effects se...

Please provide information about your playback and recording devices chosen in Audacity including Host (look in Device Toolbar ). Also provide make and model number of the microphone and say how it connects to the computer. Also see http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.ht...

Audacity 2.0.2 (if that is what you mean) is many years obsolete and has the issue you describe if you record over 27 hours at 22050 Hz, 13.5 hours at 44100 Hz, 6.75 hours at 88200 Hz and pro rata according to the sample rate) then save and reopen a project. If you must use 2.0.2 for recordings over...

My McAfee virus checker says that I shouldn't trust Lame v3.993 for Windows.exe. Using Audacity 2.1.2. Is it safe to disregard the warning? Only Download LAME according to these instructions: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame . The site we suggest in that li...

DVDdoug wrote:If iTunes can read (or play) the existing file it can convert it to MP3 (or AAC). But, I don't know exactly how to do it

See Format conversion in iTunes.


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It ends up that I had my real microphone volume too high and my "impute" microphone in Audacity too low. The webinar I watched said the "impute" was immaterial so I totally disregarded it. Any videos that refer to "impute" are not using standard terms. I can only guess...

Moved to Audio Processing. Dither is applied when there is downconversion of bit depth, not when there is a change of sample rate. It is a known Audacity bug that dither is added un-necessarily in some cases when exporting to the same bit depth as the project. So if you have a 24-bit project as chos...

Thanks. To me, that just looks like a modified version of compile.txt with some expansions and Cygwin removed. Not a step by step including for example installing Visual Studio. One of the developers wants to strip ASIO out of compile.txt altogether and mention it as an optional feature on our Wiki....

How can I make a minimal project file to include both the labels and the audio mp3 in the same channel? Obviously you can create such a project manually in the Audacity GUI then save it. *If* the actual MP3 file and label text file never change, then opening that project from the command-line is th...

When click edit, preferences, and then click the audio i/o tab under recording, there is no available devices to click. Are you also receiving "No audio devices found. Internal PortAudio Error" when Audacity launches? If so, or if you have devices enabled in Windows Sound but still no dev...