Audacity Forum

i have the latest audacity Please be specific about your Audacity version, please see the pink panel at the top of the page. Many sites offering the latest Audacity don't actually do so. some of the tracks have lead vocals,backing vocals ,strings,brass,piano etc. Generally you can't unbake a cake o...

If you can read English, http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html should answer all your questions. Windows WASAPI (loopback) is usually the best recording device to choose, and might let you record without hearing the sound without taking any special a...

Have you connected a USB device like a mic or cassette player to the computer? If so, simply unplug the USB device, then Windows will have sound. Audacity will still not have sound until you go into Device Toolbar , fourth box (playback device), and change the device to the playback device you are t...

mt12345 wrote:pulseaudio was never installed.

Which version of Debian is that?


Gale

kozikowski wrote:

Do not copy into the same folder and then move.

Why is that?

The problem is copying into the same folder, whether you then move or not.


Gale

You can't avoid easily pulse as an option if you are on Debian. If you uninstall pulse and don't know what you are doing you can break the sound system. Have you uninstalled pulse? You don't say what your playback and recording devices are in Audacity. If you choose the (hw) recording and playback d...

I tried to move the Audacity project files and there perspective folders to another directory for better organization but then the program would not recognize them when I tried to reopen to edit. SO, I had to put them back into the original folder and then "Save as" them all to the new fo...

I have a bunch of old audio recordings from version 1.2 and 1.4; the new version 2.1.2 gives an error when reading these files (reg compatibility). Have you read the message carefully? It should say that Audacity can try to open the 1.2 projects, but suggests you make a backup copy of them first. T...

One point of recording music from line-in, tapes and MDs, at high quality is setting recording level near 0 db at the loudest part in the source. It enables to minimize the data loss by the digitization. Doing this, it needs search the loudest part in the every tapes and MDs. But it's a bother. So ...

After looking through the Edit Chains COMMANDS, I find no option to maintain CBR or convert to 320 kbps. There are some limitations to Chains, and one is that it does not (yet) provide a way to specify the MP3 export settings. Fortunately there is a workaround because, when exporting MP3s with Chai...