Audacity Forum

Hi guys
ive just changed from desktop to laptop and from windows xp to windows vista.Before when i was running xp my audacity had a drop down menu saying things microphone, line in etc but now ive downloaded it again i cant find this so when i record i dont hear anything please help

... and look at the SnapTo box. Gale Yes! It works like you said. Anyway strange... I didn't remember to set/to flag that option.. Thank you all for help! ^^

Ok, i'm not very clued up on computers so i'll try to answer your questions as best i can.

I'm using Audacity 1.3 beta on my laptop.

I'm trying to record a dj mix straight in to the laptop. I'm guessing it's in the right port cos there's only 2 ports, 1 of which being for the headphones.

Same answer as Koz, but different description: The normal "waveform" view uses a linear vertical scale (-1 to +1) The "waveform (dB)" view uses a logarithmic scale. The bottom end (minimum level) in this view is set in Preferences (Edit menu > Preferences > Interface) to a value ...

What operating system, which version of Audacity, what are you trying to record and how?

thank you very much for the insights into ways this can be avoided in the future.

in the meantime, can you help me recover my data? do you know where it might be? is it even possible?

To enable effect categories you need to find the line: //#define EFFECT_CATEGORIES in /src/Experimental.h uncomment that line so that it reads: #define EFFECT_CATEGORIES I did this I could not find any line with #define USR_SLV2 1 in it so I added #define USR_SLV2 to the file experimental.h (with n...

The default measurements along the left edge are percent. 1 = 100%. 0.5 = 50%. 100% is where the sound channel runs out of numbers and stops dead. No further increase is possible. This can cause clipping and severe crunchy sound damage if you try to put a very loud show up there. Audacity throws mud...

I hope someone can help me. When I use the select tool (I) to make an edit I get a shaded block that will only allow me to cut or edit the audio section in the block. I used to be able to make large or small edits by highlighting a ...

... whistley R2-D2 compression artifacts are incurable. There are de-reverb tools which reduce reverberation, but don't bother as they aren't going to help in a severe cases like yours, (and they can be horrifically expensive).