Audacity Forum

1) What's a "GUI"? Its a Grahical User Interface - i.e. what we all (Unix users apart) use now with Windows and Mac applications. In the old steam-driven computer days can you believe that people actually had to type in lines of cammands to make programs do stuff - or even feed them decks...

Don't touch the .au files ..... When you save an Audacity project as <project_name> it creates a number of things 1. a top level master project file called <project_name>.aup 2. a folder at the same filing level called <project_name_data> 3. and within the folder a sub-folder structure with lots of ...

The reason taht you can't control the signal level is that your USB device has taken control of the signal - the mic slider becomes inoperative with most USB devices. There may be a gain control on your USB device that you can vary. You can montor the level before you record - all you have to do is ...

fl I am using 1.3.3 - and I definitely get this as part of the dialogue box when I Export Multiple and choose MP3 - then when I click the Exort button up pops the dialogue box titled "dit the ID3 tags for all MP3 files" withn the two radio buttons atthe top. Also just tested plain "Ex...

foxylady, I almost always use Multiple Export as I am normaly exporting multiple LP tracks, so I'm not sure how the other exports work (and can't test at the moment as I am recording right now - a very nice Haydn symphony). In 1.3 when you Export Multiple and select MP3 as the output format - when y...

This is called "clipping" - and ideally you should aim to set your levels so that clipping doesn't occur - it sounds horrible and its's often not psooble to fix. Tapes were a little more foorginving you could push the odd peak or two into the red and the physics of tape technology would ta...

Select the Audio, then use Effect>Amplify.

WC

If you want to hear the sound while you are recording I think you will need to reset your Software Playthrough to ON. That is certainly how my Audacity settings are - and I can monitor ok. Also check that Audacity output is tragetting your soundcard properly Edit>Preferences>Audio I/O. And ensure th...

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So your AV software removed infected files - and you found a way of putting them back - sounds like a smart move

WC

And as Koz normally reminds people .... when you have finished your projects, don't keep them stored as projects - rather, export them as WAV files (more transportable and not prone to dailure by file movements).

WC