Audacity Forum

The current Audacity source code tarball is 2.1.2 and HEAD is 2.1.3-alpha: http://www.audacityteam.org/download/source/ . Have you reported the issue to Slackware? It sounds like a system update might have changed libraries. Slackware are the people to ask about that. Does mousing over the buttons o...

That recording is unrecoverable trash as far as normal audio editing software is concerned. If the recording is for a court case, please use your favourite search engine to look for "audio forensics" specialists. For a fee, they will use special tools to recover as much material as possibl...

I want to install GSnap plug-in. I pasted GSnap.so file to /usr/bin/plug-ins , then I pressed Edit -> Preferences... -> Effects, but I didn't find "VST Effects" groupbox. Audacity 2.0.5 The plug-in: http://www.gvst.co.uk/portpage.htm Audacity 2.0.5 is obsolete now and does not support VST...

The file is definitely an mp3. I have checked it multiple ways now. Thank you for suggesting TAudioConverter, DVDdoug. I converted the file into WAV and now I can open it in Audacity! If you get another MP3 file that behaves like that, please attach it (if 2 MB or less) or upload it somewhere we ca...

DVDdoug wrote:You can check the file with MediaInfo. If it's an MP3, MediaInfo will say "MPEG (Version 1) (Layer 3)"... plus a bunch of other information.

We must always warn though to get the MediaInfo version without installer, because the installer may have malware or adware.


Gale

Just for your information, here are What the Spectrogram colors mean.

Gale

Ive got a few screen shots of various the various views available on audacity. these are taken from a 1am and a late evening recording. Something heavy is dropped on the floor. This can happen once every 10mins...sometimes more sometimes less. Can you tell me how loud that bang is please ? This is ...

I don't understand why the original AIFF file would not import correctly when you chose the "QuickTime files" filter in File > Import > Audio... . After all, QuickTime on the Mac could play the file. I had forgotten, but we don't specify AIFF, AIFC (or AIF) extensions as normally importab...

If you want to use other audio applications while using Audacity, choose the "default" or "pulse" playback device in Audacity.

Are you trying to record over a song playing in rhythmbox, or something else?


Gale

Good day friends. Pls,I have a problem. There's a recording I saved. Now, to open it, I get an "error importing" message box that says "(the file location and name) is an audacity project file. Use the file>open command to open audacity projects". What do I do pls? Thanks in ant...