Audacity Forum

if I'm trying to save them they turn into white noise too. If you WANT a clipped file try the Distortion effect with the Hard Clipping option. 0dB is the "digital maximum" and anything above that can potentially clip. Regular (integer) WAV files and CDs are hard-limited to 0dB. Analog-to-digital co...

Yes! After recording: Effect -> Change Speed.

Make sure you haven't selected a "loopback" device.

This is just to let whoever allows the posts to be submitted know that I may have submitted the same post twice. I thought I submitted the first one but it didn't turn up for a while so I suspected I may have not done so and posted it again. I apologize if there's two of the same post. To prevent s...

Make sure all Windows "Enhancements" are turned OFF. (#8 Why do my recordings fade out or sound as if they were made in a tunnel?)

I didn't attempt to listen to your file, but How to upload a WAV or MP3 file.

No you don't have to uninstall LAME but Audacity isn't using the copy you installed.

Yes, you need FFmpeg to open the M4A.

First, you no longer need to install LAME. It's now built-into Audacity. (Lame is used for exporting to MP3. It's not needed for importing MP3s and it's not used for any other formats.) FFmpeg normally isn't as difficult as it seems: Download ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe . Double the EXE file to install it,...

Turn-OFF Software Playthrough. It creates an internal feedback loop when recording streaming/internal audio.

Right... Audacity's tag support isn't perfect and when you export you are creating a completely new file. Audacity can't directly-edit the original file. It doesn't support embedded artwork at all. And the different file formats use different tagging standards so it's not an easy thing to do. Your t...

I checked the Voxengo website and Audacity is not listed as an officially supported host: Compatible Windows and macOS plugin software: Cubase, Logic Pro, ProTools, Ableton Live, Reaper, OBS, Presonus Studio One, FL Studio, Cakewalk, Nuendo, WaveLab, GarageBand, Vegas, SoundForge, Audition, Samplitu...