Audacity Forum

When you update Audacity, the first time you open the new version, a pop-up of new important changes (brief, cause otherwise no one would read it) should appear, as well as a message saying the version you're using. How do you make it brief, and yet comprehensive enough so that the minor change for...

Could someone give me an idea as to why audacity is simply stopping without any reason. Please read the pink panel at the top of this page. It is far harder to help without full information about your operating system or version of Audacity (all three numbers). We can guess Windows from "Media...

supermollusc wrote:I have downloaded Audacity for my laptop, and it records but only for 12.75 secs then just stops. After that the level meters keep working but there's no recording trace...

Make sure you did not enable Transport > Sound Activated Recording by mistake.

Gale

I don't know but I will look into it I now have another problem though -- I have installed Audacity onto my brand new desktop and unlike my older laptop I keep getting an error message "Error whilst opening sound device Please set recording device settings and project sample rate" I have ...

I'd guess that it could be some form of ATRAC . ATRAC is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony (not supported by Audacity). Audacity should decode ATRAC if you add FFmpeg to your computer. Decoding will not work if the file is encrypted (most ATRAC files are encrypt...

kozikowski wrote:

My previous reply seems to be held for moderation for reasons beyond me.

We didn't like the colour shirt you were wearing.

And as well as that, you have not made enough approved posts yet, which is the real reason.

Gale

I have the xlr of the mic plugged in channel 1. When the pan knob is all the way to the left, audacity records like this (attach. 1). As you can see, there are silent parts in the recording, this happens when I turn the knob to the right. Are there dropouts when you centre the pan knob? Is channel ...

kozikowski wrote:Do you have a neat, orderly list of all these add-on programs?

Most such add-ons are VST plugins, so in principle yes: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins.

Gale

in the Pan bar, it's "unexpected" that if you right click it, it goes from wherever you set to to 0. But that's a very common action in many players and software. Can you give some examples of such software? it's so important to show and let know users about new release changes, or at lea...

Rbloom659 wrote:The file I am trying to import is saved as a ".wav" file by way of my replacing the default ".gnaural" extension it was created with in the Gnaural software program.

That was the error. Changing the extension of a file does not change its content.


Gale