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I'm ever so grateful to the Audacity developers for creating and continuing to improve this remarkable program matched only by their generosity in sharing it for free. I wish there was some way I could share my appreciation with them besides this post. If you like, I can forward your comments to ou...

The Karaoke feature is great. I use it to create my own backing tracks. It would be awesome if when you open the window the keyboard shortcuts would remain active. Most of them do, on Windows. What operating system are you using? You have to click on the audacity window after the pop up opens and t...

I have attached a clip of the song. I am hoping someone can assist on what I could be doing wrong. The clip is too fast and has pieces missing, so it is a recording problem. The recording is too quiet, so will have surface noise when amplified to a reasonable level. Aim for recording at -6 dB on th...

I upgraded to Windows 10 too, and... I have the same issue, my MB is an ASUS m2n-sli deluxe (very old one), and I have 2 sound cards installed, the MB internal one and the AVID MBox Mini 3rth gen (USB). so I decided to turn off my computer, and unplug my AVID MBox mini, then start my computer with ...

I do click the [X] button top left of a track to close it - and that results in the box popping up with the question "Safe changes" and this happens for every open audacity file on gthe desktop. No it doesn't, in Audacity made by us. See http://audacityteam.org/download/windows . Drag in ...

You could try the attached Nyquist plugin. It's Steve's, not mine and it is experimental so use at your own risk. You are labelling the sounds. There is a control for minimum label length. See here for how to install Nyquist plugins: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/effect_menu.html#nyquist_effe...

Assuming you are recording using the "pulse" or "default" recording device in Device Toolbar , try setting the PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC value as per http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse . Alternatively choose the "USB Audio CODEC - (hw: 1.0)" or similar record...

My computer is Linux Mint 64. I installed Audacity 2.0.5 How do I configure a Samson Go Mic for this version of Audacity on my Linux operating system? Connect the mic before launching Audacity. Select the mic as the recording device in Device Toolbar . It will probably be called "USB Audio COD...

Try Compressor - Audacity Manual.

Please note we don't write any online tutorials. Be aware that most online tutorials don't say what version of Audacity they refer to. Many are outdated and some are plain wrong.


Gae

Windows 10 Audacity 2.1.1 Using audacity for at least 5 years. After uppgrading to windows 10 and to the latest Audacity version, audacity was not behaving as usual. Couldn't save alterations to old projects and some other problems. Specifically using the editor tool pencil when smothing out click-...