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by waxcylinder
Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:09 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: How To Downgrade from 2.2.2 to 2.2.1?
Replies: 6
Views: 635

Re: How To Downgrade from 2.2.2 to 2.2.1?

And if you do downgrade to 2,2,1 or 2.2.0 then just make darn sure that you don't use File > save As to save your project back to the existing open projec's name - instead always use File > Save or its shortcut Ctrl + S otherwise you are extremely likely to lose your project due to the serious bug t...
by waxcylinder
Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:40 am
Forum: Audacity 2.x Feedback and Reviews
Topic: How to restore old style veritical zoom?
Replies: 6
Views: 1348

Re: How to restore old style veritical zoom?

To use the old-style Vertical Zoom just use the left-click in the Vertical Ruler As explained earlier this is now off by default (lots of folk were getting confused by it and stuck) so you need to turn on Advanced Vertical Zooming in Preferences as explained above in a earlier post in this thread. I...
by waxcylinder
Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:50 pm
Forum: Adding Features to Audacity
Topic: Filename of a selected audio track at export time
Replies: 32
Views: 3670

Re: Filename of a selected audio track at export time

The easy workaround is to drop a label at the bginning of the audio and for the label text use the filename you require - the use File > Export Multiple

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by waxcylinder
Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:39 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: I need to reduce the gain
Replies: 12
Views: 3375

Re: I need to reduce the gain

must not overwrite the project with "Save Project As" That's one of those Programmer/Human Engineering things. Who in their right mind would use Save As: to write corrections to the current project? Erm ... Microsoft for one :o Word does it without an overwrite warning - Excel gives a war...
by waxcylinder
Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:09 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: I need to reduce the gain
Replies: 12
Views: 3375

Re: I need to reduce the gain

must not overwrite the project with "Save Project As" That's one of those Programmer/Human Engineering things. Who in their right mind would use Save As: to write corrections to the current project? Erm ... Microsoft for one :o Word does it without an overwrite warning - Excel gives a war...
by waxcylinder
Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:05 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Annoying folder creation bug
Replies: 5
Views: 527

Re: Annoying folder creation bug

Personally I'd be much happier if it just asked me where I want the output folder. Personally I'd be much happier if it always went to a standard location: ... Documents\Audacity\Macros Output Then folk would always know where to look. Macos - beacuase Chains are being renamed to Macros (and extend...
by waxcylinder
Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:42 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: A QUESTION ABOUT RECORDING..
Replies: 3
Views: 252

Re: A QUESTION ABOUT RECORDING..

This suggested workflow in the Audacity Manual may be useful to you: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/rec ... cords.html

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by waxcylinder
Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:31 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to move mouse pointer position with keyboard shortcuts?
Replies: 4
Views: 549

Re: How to move mouse pointer position with keyboard shortcu

Ah - thos commands move the view not the mouse cursor. With a selection present the mouse cursor position is always the start of the selection. Ahhh - but we also have Transport > Move Cursor To > Selection > End and Transport > Move Cursor To > Selection > Start But note that using either of these...