Audacity Forum

I do keep Java UTD. I wouldn't be too concerned about running a 2010 Java app on any Java much newer than the app, however, especially an open-source one ;) . Not really the point, Dick. The point is that having Java installed creates an attack vector if an attacker can find a way to get a maliciou...

Just for an estimate, how big is the index file for the Audacity manual? The database for Puggle seems to be 4.6MB after fully indexing the manual, but note that this is designed as a general purpose Desktop search, so it is probably storing a lot more information than we need. Even so, 4.6MB is a ...

My reservation re: using an index to search label tracks in .aup files is the amount of irrelevant data an index file would contain unless there's a way to target particular tags in xml format documents. If there is, and adding new files to the library doesn't require re-scanning all the old ones, t...

Java is considered something of a security risk (especially on Windows of course as the main "target" platform for malware writers). So ensure your Java settings allow automatic updates and require you to be asked before untrusted Java applications will run. More information at https://jav...

Puggle creates a database on first use. From first launch of Puggle, setting the search directory, waiting for it to create the database, to getting my first search result, took perhaps 30 seconds. After that, search results are virtually instant. It has "extractors" for "documents&qu...

Reminds me of my aside at the end of my Aug 6 post out of frustration with cmd.exe - "maybe I should read a primer on java instead - this is pretty basic". I should look into getting an IDE for batch files - I wonder if they really reflect the actual behavior of a batch program running wit...

I don't use Windows, but there are several search applications available for all platforms. One that I tried recently is a Java application that works on Windows, OS X and Linux (requires JAVA to be installed), called Puggle . It's a bit old (2010), but I found that it works very well and when set u...

I have a "3quel" (rev 3.0). It does inverse searches (Any files containing a negated term are excluded from the results, rather like a real search engine but without the spelling checker.). It also gives a count of the matches, just in case you were wondering how long that list is. The pat...

When Audacity launches, it looks to see if it can find a version of FFMpeg that it can use. Audacity usually has to search through a number of options before it can find a configuration that works. The FFMpeg related "errors" that you see relate to failed attempts to load FFMpeg. When an a...

I just want to basically make my ogg file 24 bit, because the game I want to put my sound effects in only supports ogg There's no such thing as 24-bit Ogg. "24-bit" refers to the "bit-depth" of PCM encoded audio. As described in Wikipedia, Ogg does not have "bit-depth"...