Help for Audacity on macOS.
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DUAN545
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by DUAN545 » Fri May 08, 2015 10:59 pm
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Since I've downloaded "Audacity v. 2.1.0 Mac" I've been plagued with problems. Latest one, the tracks get a white tunnel down the middle of the track. This tunnel doesn't affect the recording but it does affect being able to set the "Cursor" position with any accuracy when selecting a section of the track, specifically the silence between songs. I am only using Audacity to digitize my Vinyl LP records. Once or twice I got the "White tunnel" to go away by going to the "Screenshot Menu". This no longer has an effect on the tunnel but it sure messes with my "Tool Bars". I deselect the "EDIT toolbar" and the "TOOLS toolbar". When I open the screenshot "Tools..." it immediately changes the Tool Bars destroying my preferred settings.....
**My system runs:
Mac OS X - 10.10.3
Audacity - 2.1.0
Safari - 8.0.6
I mention "Safari" because when running Audacity and Safari at the same time it shuts down Safari to where it won't load a different web site.
Thanks
Duan Anderson
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billw58
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by billw58 » Sat May 09, 2015 3:10 am
The "white tunnel" is because you have selected the multi tool. Change to the Selection tool instead.
See:
Tool Toolbar in the manual.
This should not affect your ability to select with any accuracy you desire, but you may want to
zoom in .
Use the
View Menu to show and hide the various
toolbars.
Help > Screenshot Tools is meant to help you make screenshots of Audacity, and as such does reset the Toolbars to a known state.
I have never heard of Audacity interfering with Safari.
-- Bill
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Trebor
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by Trebor » Sat May 09, 2015 5:31 am
DUAN545 wrote:Re: EDITING a project to: eliminate silence between songs
"Truncate silence" should be able to do that automagically ...
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tr ... lence.html.
Last edited by
Gale Andrews on Sat May 09, 2015 2:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: fixed Manual link to point to released Manual
