Audacity Forum

What operating system are you using (for example, Windows 7)? What version of Audacity? See Help > About Audacity to check. As it says in red and pink above "If you require help, or think you have found a "bug", please post on the forum board relevant to your operating system." D...

DC offset removal should be done straight after importing the files, just in case there is any offset. To do this, CTRL + A to select all the tracks, then Effect > Normalize with only the DC offset box checked. Find Zero Crossings, Fade Out/ In and Cross Fade are all alternatives. The zero crossings...

I don't hear any sound when my cassette is playing in my escap device . In Device Toolbar , set the input device to the USB Ezcap device and the output device to your computer speakers. To hear the cassette through the computer speakers, click Transport > Software Playthrough (on/off) in Audacity t...

I still get garbled audio even when nothing is running, and I've shut down all possible processes in the task manager. I have processor scheduling, set to "background services." There is nothing using up resources and no reason for audacity to skip and sound garbled the way it does. I've ...

If you want to progress this, please read what we said: Please tell us exactly 1, 2, 3 ... what you did (exact commands as named in the program menu, or whatever else you did). We can't fix anything unless we know that. i did save as like i said!!!!!!!!!!! you can only change filenames with the save...

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 Sp...

If you use cut and paste, select all the first track then try Z (Find Zero Crossings) followed by Edit > Remove Audio > Trim. Do the same with the next track then Edit > Remove Audio > Cut after the trim. Click in the first track, K to move to the end of that first track and paste there. If this is ...

What happens if you don't monitor at all? Just press Record with software playthrough on (assuming you want it) and accept recording the false starts while you find the LP track? Do you get more static noise events, or less? Gale Actually, I do. It does not seem to matter if I pre-monitor the sourc...

I do not have any speakers (Headset with microphone attached) but if I were to get speakers and turn up the volume on them, Stereo mix would make my voice louder? Once I record it goes to Stereo mix because it wants to record the video game volume and my own voice That is the object of the exercise...

If Audacity never launches you will have to turn off the VST scanning in the audacity.cfg settings file. See here http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.0.2#Program_Launch (where it says "(Windows and OS X) VST/Audio Units Plug-ins"). Audio Units are not supported on Windows, so...