Audacity Forum

all my recording time is at work. i work the night shift at a hospital where i have a lot of down time, which is why i started recording my stuff here. i've done a number of things in audacity, but never had to record live from the mic input on my laptop. a majority of my music is made in a differen...

Using SoX to convert audio files. SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio ...

Steve, I'm nearly ready to start exporting Audacity files to MP3 format. I'm sure I downloaded a copy of lame about 5 months ago! Can you tell me please how I can confirm that/find where the file is located. When I type "lame" in the Start/search programs and files box, nothing appears? Al...

Hello audio experts... I have looked in to TiMidity and posted a question about it on the ScummVM forum after I Googled "TiMidity", but I'm not sure if I'll get a response because this seems to be a gamer's forum site. I'm beginning to figure that TiMidity is a mythical application that pe...

Hello again steve, or anyone out there who knows about TiMidity... Well, I have looked a bit more in to TiMidity and posted a question about it on the ScummVM forum after I Googled "TiMidity", but I'm not sure if I'll get a response because ScummVM seems to be a gamer's forum site. I'm beg...

What page said is a bit ambiguous... It could be understood as search the audio file for a word and remove all the occurrances of that word (a bit link doing a find and replace function in a text document).

(I think this topic could me moved to audio processing... do you agree?)

The two major points raised were: a) Quantization ( if you will in layman terms rounding error, truncating past a certain decimal place). I seen this on review for scanners (printers), they complained about the typo for stated 48 bit resolution, I believe it was actually 32 bits. In all cases of bit...

Ok... I did a search for .au and .aup and found nothing related to audacity.... I also made a few "adjustments" to my procedure of transferring audio from usb turntable to computer - thinking perhaps I could stop the loss of disk space... But apparently, my changes aren't enough since I am...

Hi wax and Steve... (sounds sort of like an adult feature) I've hit the "brick wall" so many times on this topic that I have mortar in my large intestine... and I love cliche analogies... people who use cliche analogies to describe everything are like, well, never mind... that would be ano...

You might be looking for dynamic compression. What a dynamic compressor does is to amplify the quieter parts while keeping the louder parts below clipping. In other words it narrows the volume gap between loud and quiet parts. Audacity has a dynamic compressor in the effects menu. There are more plu...