Audacity Forum

waxcylinder wrote:@Gale: have you recorded this vote?

Yes I have now. Topic archived.

Gale

Use Labels . CTRL + B to add a label at the editing cursor or selection. Type in the label to give it a name. You can't define a shortcut that types specific text, unless you use a separate macro program like AutoHotKey to do that. You can File > Export Labels... as a tab-delimited text file for use...

I assume you mean a USB converter. Put the little AU files and the _data folder back exactly as Audacity saved them originally, then you can open the AUP project file you saved. Then File > Export or similar command as WAV (not MP3), assuming Dad will be playing the CD in a car or some standalone CD...

Your assumption that I do not use Mac is false, hence why I mentioned the blue flash - that is all I see on Sierra even in Safari and iTunes. Personally the flash annoys me, but then Mac is not my main operating system of choice. ;) Koz does mainly use Macs. I notice that FileZilla which uses a slig...

Try Window > Zoom.


Gale

Even if you have stopped a recording, you can hold SHIFT and click either the Record button or the R key to Append-Record at the end of the selected track(s).


Gale

Several highlighted "OK" blocks do no respond to a return key. If you are taking about using RETURN key to apply an effect, this does not work in 2.1.2. You can use your mouse to click OK, or you can COMMAND + TAB twice to switch out of and back into Audacity then OK will work. In 2.1.3 w...

If I hit big green button on upper left, playback appears fast and I cant hear. I suspect the recording was slow. Then you could try setting a lower speed on the Play-at-Speed slider, or Effect > Change Speed... . Did you choose standard 44100 Hz project rate (bottom left) when you recorded? What v...

But where is this audio coming from and what are you trying to do? Are you trying to record your voice over a backing track that is playing in your computer? If so, import the backing track into Audacity, ensure Transport > Overdub is on, then choose your mic as the recording device, not what U hear...

The maximum frequency that you can display in the spectrogram is half the sample rate shown in the track's information area. This is independent of the project rate, which controls the sample rate of playback and the sample rate at which tracks are mixed or exported. If the project rate is below twi...