Audacity Forum

4). difficult to do crossfades without seeing where the crossfade occurs (by way of curves), like you can in Audition Ah yes, I agree that this one is not as easy as it should be - there are a pair of crossfades in Audacity that don't actually do the X-fade for you - you have to fade on e track out...

1). the main window cannot be resized vertically (i.e. zoomed in and out vertically, not just horizontally) so that more tracks can be seen at once (essential for large projects which have a large number of tracks) Ther are a couple of existing tools than can help here: 1) View > Fit Vertically or ...

3). adding and removing tracks is not intuitive Going to the Tracks menu there are two items in the drop-down menu for: 1) Add New which has its own helpful sub-menu 2) Remove Tracks - which removes all currently selected tracks, if none are selected the command is grayed out. How much more "i...

2). creating a track from an .mp3 file is not intuitive To create a track from an MP3 or any other audio file you need to Import it into Audacity. We have a distinction between native format (i.e Audacity Projects) which can be Opened and Saved - and non-native formats (e.g. audio files like MP3 an...

5). difficult to remove background hisses and hum completely when using the "noise removal" tool. Though one student suggested the use of the "vocal removal" tool instead so that the noise in a stereo track (which is the same in both channels) disappears. Yes indeed it is - and ...

6). when deleting a part of a track, Audacity does not allow one to bring back a part of it back (but not the whole thing, as you can do by an "undo"). For example in Audition, if you delete a section of audio, you can click and drag to reveal a part of the deleted audio. I don't understa...

7). the playback cursor can get very confusing. For instance, if you position the cursor, then playback a few seconds of audio, then stop, then decide to select a bit of audio from this stopped position, it is very difficult to do this because the selected audio will occur from where the cursor was...

8). backing up a project file is definitely not intuitive, as you need to copy the "data" folder over as well as the .aup file By their nature Audacity Projects are somewhat complex beasts and as you not they are not a unified file. It was designed this way to facilitate speed of processi...

9). sometimes vertical red lines are seen throughout the audio tracks and it takes a while to work out that they are actually indicators of where the waveform has been clipped These are indeed the clipping indicators - a positive feature of Audacity. The default setting is 2off" so someone has...

This is a long shopping list with many topics so this thread could get very bifurcated and messy

I'm going to try and pick off some of the low hanging fruit ...

WC