Audacity Forum

Pops and clicks are generally indicative of hardware problems. In this case, it's certainly not your processor or RAM. The biggest culprit is probably your sound card. If you've got a sound card built into your motherboard, I'm not surprised, those things suck. Especially since you've had better luc...

How do I get live sound into audacity? Don't I need an interface of some kind? Yes, you'll need an audio interface of some sort. Chances are you already have one. And chances are that it's not so great. For most people, a computer's audio is low on the list of important things to check out. If you ...

I don't think it's possible to move a label, you'll have to delete them and re-create it by placing the cursor and pressing [ctrl]+b

The "Scrubbing" feature is currently absent in Audacity, I can't say if that will always be the case though. But you can certainly add a marker to a project while it's playing, press [ctrl]+m to create one at the current playback position (only while it's playing) or press [ctrl]+b to crea...

It depends on the medium. If you're making a recording of a long speech, you need to be sure to keep the pauses and everything in place (but feel free to kill the mic booming and breathing noises if present). But if the time period is limited, it's best to edit so that the original intend it present...

When you convert a file down to a lower quality, any flaws in the original file will be amplified greatly. So the only way to get it to sound good at low quality is to use good source material and be very careful about what kind of editing you use. The Noise Removal (use Audacity 1.3.3 for this effe...

You have likely turned off "play other tracks while recording new one" in Audacity's Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O menu.

Alternately (though much less likely) you've changed the output device to something that has no speakers plugged in.

This square root function is not compressed in the way that we normally talk about dynamic range compression (though the signal strength certainly increases). That kind of compression is a dynamically changing amplification factor that multiplies smaller portions of the audio to make it "look&q...

Audacity 1.3.3 seems to be able to create multi-channel files, but I don't know of any way to play a project using many output channels using Audacity. You could probably create an 8-channel output file and use some other software to play that with, send those 8 channels to your mixer and then captu...

Do I need to have an amplifier between the turntable and computer? Yes, you really should have one. If you have a stereo receiver with a 'phono' input, that will work. But if you don't, and you're interested in making digital copies of all your records, you should buy a phono pre-amp. I use the TCC...