Audacity Forum

If the time unit is set to "seconds" and snap is set to "Nearest" or "Prior", clicking on the timeline anywhere except very close to a whole second plays the selection (or from the select cursor) instead of from the mouse cursor location on the timeline. I did get it t...

Your current device selection and its capabilities are shown at the bottom of that log: Selected recording device: 7 - Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio) (loopback) Selected playback device: 8 - Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Supported Rates: 48000 Try setting the Defa...

LeeJames wrote:There's no real-time processing so you can't adjust the EQ of a track while playing it (something I consider essential for making music).

Um, Audacity does do that - do you have an old version? See Real-time preview of effects. It is true you can't apply effects while recording.


Gale

So Audacity has been doing this to me for quite a long time and I always just figured it was outdated and would update to the latest version. Problem solved. Or so I thought. Recently, Audacity seems to just interrupt all my recordings after a certain amount of time. I record gameplay that covers t...

You can always use Audacity in post production processing. It's FRAPS for gameplay and Pamela for Skype. Both of those applications "know" about the other audio application and work well together. A note that Win10 occasionally throws Pamela for a loop, but for the most part, it's OK. Onc...

I added an installer for 2.0.6 and a note about "Application configuration incorrect" to http://www.audacityteam.org/download/legacy-windows/.


Gale

If you are recording at 96000 Hz you could try changing that to 44100 H or 48000 Hz bottom left of Audacity. You are only making low quality recordings (by the sound of it) so you will not benefit from high sample rates. If you are using the computer's internal microphone or microphone connected to ...

Are you using El Capitan or Yosemite? Your profile says Yosemite.

If you enabled the wireless speakers while Audacity was running, restart Audacity or use Transport > Rescan Audio Devices in the Audacity menu bar.

If you are using Airplay, see this post.


Gale

I am told that the aifc file is from an unrecognzed developer. I think it's more likely Audacity is from an Unrecognized Developer. AIFC is a compressed version of AIFF which is a native Mac file format. There's a trick to this I don't remember. The best way is to do without opening the file first ...

downloaded song from iTunes but when i open in audacity nothing shows up. just empty screen If you are using Audacity 2.1.0, you need to add FFmpeg to import MP4/M4A/MOV/ALAC . "Nothing happening" is exactly what happens in 2.1.0 if you import a short file in one of those Apple formats wi...