Audacity Forum

Hello, I have an application that requires certain types of audio files as input. It's quite strict and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do this. The files it accepts are: .wav format (RIFF header), sampling rate of 8kHz or 16kHz, mono, 16 or 8 bit linear OR... headerless (raw format), sam...

... Sorry Reta, I'm still not sure what you mean. Could you make a screenshot (picture) of Audacity to show what you mean. If you look in the Audacity Help menu there is a "Screenshot Tool". Instructions for the Screenshot Tools are here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Help_Menu#tools ...

Hmm, strange. Something that you can try that may help to diagnose the problem: It's possible to make a "portable" version of Audacity that will run (albeit sluggishly) of a USB stick or other location. Download the ZIP version of Audacity ...

thanks, Steve! didn't want to lose data - appreciate your help, Roberta

... the files within Windows XP running within VMWare Fusion on the mac to see if it is an OS issue. It isn't. Exactly the same problem. Can anyone help? Thanks, Mistergrainger iMac OSX Snow Leopard 4GB RAM Core 2 Duo 3.06 gHz

I have a PowerPoint slide show and it ends before the song ends. I want to fade the song out. I googled and the reply said to use Audacity. I don''t know how to open Audacity and use it with PowerPoint or how to fade out a song. Please help! It is for a preschool graduation presentation. Thanks!

... Typing all in upper case is considered to be "shouting", thus "rude" and unlikely to encourage others to help you. how do I swap the left and right channels of a selected part of an audio? See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Splitting_and_Joining_Stereo_Tracks

... from the first post in this topic: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=61498&p160229#p160229 Please read the "Help" screens that are included with the plug-ins. The plug-ins are both "Nyquist" plug-ins. Instructions for how to install are here: ...

... recursive recording like that makes the computer more unstable for casual users and business communications. http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html Koz

... chance of recovering any data is to try the methods described in the Audacity wiki "Recovery" page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/recovery.html I wish you luck, but I don't have high hopes :(