Audacity Forum

... to work. I gather that's not how it's supposed to work, then? [ For the record: I am pretty sure I was reading the included local doco, from the Help menu link ]

oh ok :/ anyways thank you guys for your help!

... (and yes I agree that the manual should be comprehensive). As you will no doubt appreciate, documenting Audacity is a huge task, so volunteers to help with the task are always welcome. Do you want to volunteer? For that task, absolutely. :-)

got a bit stuck on step 3 This should help. 1) Download this file to somewhere that you can find it: split-at-3000.xml 2) Open the Equalization effect and select the "Draw Curves" 3) Click the "Save/Manage Curves" button ...

Hello, My name is Randy and I desperately need help. I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to import audio and it continues to tell me that "Audacity does not recognize the type of file - if it is uncompressed, ...

... current version of Audacity is here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ If you have an unofficial version, or a version lower than 2.0.6 (see "Help menu > About Audacity" to find the 3 digit version number), I recommend that you install the current official release version. Audacity does ...

Audacity claims you can convert audio files and export them. It doesn't work! Every time I try it says you need an extension software called something like "lame" What IS, LAME is, I downloaded this whatever it is several times and I still can't export or convert anything. Help, please.

... is not compatible with Vista or later. Try restarting the computer. On Windows 8 or 8.1, restart using the Windows key + X menu. If that does not help, open Edit > Preferences... in Audacity then look in "Recording" on the left. In that "Recording" section, make sure that "Audio ...

... (and yes I agree that the manual should be comprehensive). As you will no doubt appreciate, documenting Audacity is a huge task, so volunteers to help with the task are always welcome. Do you want to volunteer?

Look at Help > About Audacity... . It should say 2.0.5. If it says 2.05 you have a spoof version and you should uninstall it. Install the official version using Synaptic or "Ubuntu Software Centre". Who can tell me how ...