Audacity Forum

Audacity can apply more gain than +35 dB, but your aim is to record so that the recording meters get up to about -6 dB for the loudest part of the recording. This gives you the best signal to noise ratio and a bit of leeway to apply any effects that may boost volume (boosting bass will boost volume)...

i was recording with the same machine. i have a focusrite soundcard. i tried what u suggested without any luck. any other suggestions. i mean, why did it work 3 days ago with the same soundcard but not today If the song is playing on an external sound card then you must use Windows WASAPI loopback ...

It would help if you said what version of Audacity you have (please give us all three Audacity numbers, see the pink panel at the top of the page). When I am in Audacity and go to file it only has Export Audio, no export to mp3. When you click Export Audio, in the window that appears, click in the &...

Hi Gale, I made such a recording and added it to the article I mentioned above ( http://beis.de/Elektronik/DA2USB/AudacityMMEvsWASAPI/Audacity_MME_vs_WASAPI.html ). It is interesting. It is possible that MME being emulated over WASAPI on Vista and later has removed the 44100 Hz restriction. You mig...

The old laptop is HP G61 Notebook PC Product number VY438EA#ABU. That laptop does not support Windows 10, in so far as HP do not supply Windows 10 drivers for it. So at best you will be using generic Microsoft audio drivers that are not perfectly matched to your built-in sound device. Are you runni...

but natively it's 44100 With Audacity set to MME and 192000 Hz project rate I can make recordings from a 192 kHz source, and I can record frequencies up to close to 96 kHz. And the recorded signal is not an alias or something like that, it is the original signal. So the signal is obviously not resa...

upps but it doesnt remember where it was imported from so then i have to go all though the trouble of finding where to save it. has to be in original location because music player is linked to it. what i need to do a lot of is editing music files from my music player that are linked to MY MUsic Lib...

Any ideas as to how to get my line in to trigger the vu,s , the recording levels in Audacity so I can ad some more tracks to the wav files I have ? If you want to record directly from GR30 (if you are still using that) you have to connect from its Mix Out to the computer. Audacity does not record M...

There are risks in running XP connected to the internet. Please see the following page for what you can do to make the machine (a little) more secure if you can't update to later Windows: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=84123 . You cannot use Audacity with no disk space. Do yo...

If you import the MP3 back into Audacity is it the correct length? If not, make sure you File > Export Audio and not Export Selected Audio. Be aware that MP3 will add some milliseconds of silence to the start of the exported file, which you will have to allow for when lining up with video. Gale