Audacity Forum

You know, I've been using Audacity all this time and I never noticed that you could silence a section with the w|-|w thing :D Hey, me too - and neither did I. And the -|w|- looks like it could be useful too :) Though actually both of them are doable much quicker with k/b shortcuts: Trim: -|w|- is C...

It's now been moved to the Recording tab in Preferences

WC

Assuming that you have set your Audacity preferences to work in stereo - then you will see 2 channels in each Track that you create - I assume that this is what you are describing. If however you make a recording and then press Stop, this will create a track with a stereo pair. If you then press Rec...

In 1.2 you can't easily. In 1.3 you can append after stopoing redording and editing with the kyboard shortcut Shift+R

1.3.9 has just been released (1.3 is pretty stable now) - you can download it from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

WC

You are probably overloading the Mic input on your new laptop. If it was ok on your previous laptop, then the mic-in on that one was probably capable of adjusting itself to adapt to line level input. Ideally you should be feeding in to a line-in socket, unfortunately - unfortunately most modern lapt...

Also I note that ION sell additional special stylus/cartridge for use with 78s - you really should use one of thos. The sytandard one supplyed for vinyl is not really suitable for use on shellac 78s.

WC

One feature of Audacity that will help you with 78 digitization is the set of Equalization curves for the various RIAA equalizations that were applied by the different manufacturers. Noote that unlike with vinyl LPs where a stand RIAA curve was agreed on almost from the outset - with 78s each manufa...

It's been moved to the Transport menu since at least 1.3.7

TIP: Quickest way to invoke it is with the keyboard shortcut SHIFT+T

WC

You don't say which version of Audacity you are using. In 1.3 try File > Open Metadata Editor in 1.2.x - no idea, I can't find it ... Personally I never bother with metadata (apart from song/track names for Export Multiple) until my music files are exported from Audacity and imported into their targ...

Thanks for reporting back sekaiji, much appreciated.

And glad it works now ...

WC