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Yes, you just need to Export as MP3 - but you will need to download the optional LAME library - see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... ml#winlame

WC

this plug-in should work in Audacity 2.3.0 (tested in 2.3.1 alpha). toggle-track-names.ny Indeed that plug-in does indeed work on both 2.3.0 and latest 2.3.1 alpha PLUS it has the benefit of being a toggle and thus only needing a single keyboard shortcut to toggle on/off :) :geek: Very cute Steve 8...

With a LOT of help from James I got these two Macros (see attachments) working on the latest 2.3.1 alpha (and they seem then to work on 2.3.0) @edwinn: if you want to try the latest 2.3.1 alpha to make it work send me a PM If you load those text files into your Macros folder in your Audacity setting...

Hi edwinn, I've written to the developer to sound out his thoughts on your suggestions. Re. a keyboard shortcut for toggling the trackname on/off - I am strongly mined to agree with you. It's a pain-in-the-butt to have to keep traipsing over into prefs to toggle it. I guess that if we were to do thi...

Sounding pretty good to me

WC

… there was the additional complication of finding and downloading the LAME .dll. The installation in Linux had been very straightforward and LAME appears to be installed with Audacity. I thought that the mp3 copyright and licence had recently lapsed. If this is so, could the Windows installation b...

Thanks for that feedback Trainer.

I have let the developer responsible for the Macros upgrade (James Crook) know.

Thanks,

Peter

As it state in the Audacity Manual:

MME: This is the Audacity default and the most compatible with all audio devices.
Windows DirectSound: This is more recent than MME with potentially less latency.

See this page: https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Device_Toolbar

WC

I've been discussing this with the developer involved (who also happens to be our Release Manager for the upcoming 2.3.1) release. He says (as RM) that we have no time to do this for 2.3.1 - but we may be able to do something about it in the subsequent release. For technical reasons down to drawing ...

Hi, I just updated from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0 and right away noticed the new "trackname display" with LONG name is obscuring the upper channel waveform peaks more than half way across the work-space. This is going to greatly interfere with editing... unless the new label background is transparen...