Audacity Forum

I assume that a lot of your users will be more interested in sound engineering stuff so talk of UTF-8 etc might well be outside their knowledge? I agree, and that's why my first reply had no mention of ANSI or UTF-8 but just said to remove the offending characters. Trouble is, that also gives only ...

Can you also try quitting Audacity, editing audacity.cfg down to NewPrefsInitialized=1 then restarting, as described here:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audac ... reset_beta


Gale

If you see "Lame" and a version number in the Libraries Preferences rather than "not found", then Lame is detected. Can't find any Lame files in either HD > Library > Preferences or User > Library > Preferences, either by visual inspection or through Find. Sorry, that was in Aud...

Upgrade to 1.3.14 Beta (Unicode): http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-win-unicode-1.3.14.exe then follow these instructions to download LAME: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#lame When you come to export as MP3 in 1.3.14, click File, click Export, and choose...

I need to hire a programmer to design a very simple user interface with Audacity open source software. I would like a simple mixer interface that combined 20 predetermined "beat tracks" of 5 min each in a loop with an mp3 spoken track. The interface would have a beats per min slide bar fo...

where would I locate the "device toolbar"... Right now my Audacity preference for playback, where it says "device" it says "Primary Sound Driver"...but I've tried it with that, and the other option is "Speaker/Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC). You are ...

NewPrefsInitialized=1 Version=1.3.13-beta PrefsVersion=1.1.1r1 [Version] Major=1 Minor=3 Micro=13 [Directories] TempDir=C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Local\Temp\audacity_temp Thanks for replying. Is that all the content of audacity.cfg before you replaced it with the one that I attached? It should have [Wi...

The answer above works, but it's also deeply wrong. If you wanted Mac users to do this, you should have a _folder_ inside the DMG and not the files directly. The current 1.3.14 Beta does have a top level Audacity folder with the folders and two text files inside that top level folder. I know some M...

Audacity ® 1.3.14-beta (Unicode) It crashes, but it seems that when i have closed it down trough Ctrl+ alt + delete and then loaded the last save I had + file recovery it gets me back to where i Last was+ the Compression has been applied as well. If a project gets "flaky", you can do File...

I've been trying to get the library on Audacity set up, but the instructions make no sense to me. Can someone please tell me how to get the library up and running so that I can save my audio? The instructions are here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins#ffdown . Please...