Questions tagged [audacity]
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio recording and editing application featuring support for a large number of file formats, multitrack mixing and a wide selection of digital effects, with support for more effects via LADSPA (and optionally VST) plug-ins.
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Batch convert .wav to mp3 and ogg?
I have a few hundred .wav files that I need to convert to both ogg and mp3 format. Is there a way that I can do this in batch either from Audacity or from some other command line tool?
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How do I move audio from one portion to another in Audacity?
I want to select a portion of audio and then move it by dragging it to different areas in the same track.
How do I accomplish this?
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MME, Windows DirectSound or Wasapi
so im using Audacity and was wondering wich recording device/system I should use for the best audio quality? There is MME, Windows DirectSound and Wasapi.Im on a Windows 7 laptop and I tried them all ...
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How to increase volume on multiple MP3s at once?
I know how to use Audacity to increase the volume of one MP3 at a time. What I have is a folder of audio files and I'd like to increase the volume of all of them without the need to open each one ...
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Import FFmpeg into Audacity
I'm trying to import FFmpeg into Audacity (so I can encode AAC audio)
But the latest FFmpeg Windows build doesn't include the avformat-55.dll file I need. Where can I find this file, or is it not ...
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ffmpeg: Removing parts with silence: Efficiently remove several parts of a Video
I'm trying to remove parts of a video, where there is no (or little) audio. For this I use audacity (Analyze->Sound finder) and export the Label Track. This results in something like this:
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How to view the bitrate of a media file in Audacity
How can I view the bitrate of a media file in Audacity? There are lots of instructions on how to change the bitrate of a file, but I can't find anything about finding the bitrate of the original file....
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How to record both input and output audio simultaneously?
I'm trying to record a phone call made with Google Voice Chat using Audacity. I'm running Linux Mint 17.
In this example, I'm making an outbound phone call from my computer to a person on a normal ...
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Will editing an MP3 harm the quality?
I recently recorded something in MP3 — I should have done FLAC, but it’s way too late — and I wanted to edit those soundtracks from 5 minutes to about 2 minutes each. I edit in Audacity. Will loading ...
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How do I automatically split an audio file where a tone occurs?
I have an audio recording in which 1 kHz tones divide its segments. There are so many segments that it would take a while to use Audacity to manually split the file. Is there an automatic plug-in or ...
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audacity resampling
When I try to resample an audio file I go to track->resample then set the new sample rate and the sample rate appears as the changed one then I click file->export and save it as wav. When I open the ...
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Completely cutting silence out of an audio file
I record lecture notes, and they contain giant pauses filled with white noise. Is there some way I can get rid of those passages completely? Using Audacity, I can reduce the white noise (i.e. turn it ...
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Free solution to create a virtual sound device in Windows? (Skype speakers both virtual and real)
Trying to learn how to record a Skype conversation, I found here that this can be done on a Mac with Audacity and other free applications (by adding an aggregated device and a multi-output device in ...
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How can I record system sounds (apps) in Audacity?
Or another similar program? All I want to do is record the sounds coming from say firefox, or any other app, for use as samples in music. I need to do this in both windows and linux (ubuntu 9.10).
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How to remove unwanted noise peaks in sound files in Windows?
How can I remove the peaks in the top channel shown in the image? They are noises.
This image is from audacity
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Is there a free "AutoTune" plugin for Audacity?
I have plugged in GSnap in Audacity. How do I get the "tune" effect shown in the video Auto Tuning?
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Audacity adds a gap when exporting mp3
I created a loop Audacity which was 10.549s long, I exported it to mp3, now when I open the exported file via Audacity it now has a gap at the beginning making it 10.58s long. The loop I made that ...
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Read wav file header - possibly with audacity - on linux
On ubuntu linux, I want to be able to inspect a wav file such that I can read the wav header to determine the format. I have the tool audacity which, as an audio tool seems pretty good, but I can't ...
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How can I split an audacity recording track at regular intervals?
It looks like there are a number of ways to split an Audacity audio recording:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Tracks_and_Clips
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/...
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Audacity: Assign left channel to both channels in mp3 file
I'm using Audacity 1.3.12-beta on Mac OS X 10.6.7. In a band we recorded a couple of songs - in mono - and I converted them to mp3 files right away. And of course, I deleted the recordings immediately ...
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Need to split stereo track, discard right channel, and remove noise
I'm using Audacity to process some short audio clips - about 300 of them (!!!), so I'd really rather not repeat my steps manually for each one.
However, I can't seem to find a way to create a chain ...
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Quiet Sound while recording using the "Stereo Mix" option on Windows XP
I'm trying to record some of my work, and the video capture program I'm using works fine. It's HyperCam2, and since it's not really professional, I don't care about that little thing in the corner. ...
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How to stop recording after x minutes of silence in Audacity?
I am using Audacity to record sound from webinar recordings.
There could be a few minutes of silence during the webinar.
I want to set up Audacity to stop recording
the best would be after, let's ...
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Audacity: stop playing and move cursor to playhead?
While playing a track, I want to be able to press a button and stop what I'm listening to and move the cursor forward to that location (essentially more like pausing than stopping). But even pause ...
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ffmpeg reduce background noise
Audacity has a great noise reduction process that I've found works very well: select a "quiet" sample section of audio, choose Effects>Noise Reduction>Get Noise Profile. Then select whole stream, ...
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How can I import audio sequentially in Audacity?
I am currently work on a large recording project. It consists of various telephone recordings that I then narrate in separate files.
Each recording and corresponding narrated it saved in a separate ...
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Audacity: save just a sound file, not a Project
I commonly use Audacity to make simple edits to a single sound file: trim, filter, fade-in, a few edits, etc. Just one file. Not a full-blown "project" in audacity-speak.
Can I then just "file/save"...
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How can I mute a selection, or make the selection completely quiet, in Audacity?
Some cursory searching turned up results for how to mute a track in Audacity.
I would like to be able to silence a given selection within a track.
Is this possible, and if so, how?
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How to stretch a shorter audio track to fit longer video with Audacity
I've demuxed an audio commentary track from a DVD release of a movie. My plan is to mux this commentary track back into a Blu-Ray version of the movie. However, the problem is that the Blu-Ray is 4 ...
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How to view the periodogram or FFT of a WAV file in Audacity?
I’m trying to visualize the periodogram (or the Fourier transform (FFT)) of a WAV file (not a spectrogram produced by a sliding window). Is it possible to do this using Audacity?
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Is it possible to run two separate instances (copies, versions) of Audacity?
What I want is two separate instances of Audacity running in parallel as to separate programs with different settings.
I want one to use WASAPI as audio host and speakers as input device (the 2.0.5 ...
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audacity - convert multiple .aup's to .mp3's
I have a bunch of about 130 .aup files (all recordings of vinyls) that I would like to convert to mp3. Each .aup is an entire side of the vinyl (I don't want to split the tracks - the whole side as ...
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Audacity: process audio recording
I got an audio file and it was recorded too close to the mic, I can listen to some vibrations at the end of the words and with the 's'. I want to fix it using Audacity. What should I do?
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Why is audacity recording at a slower speed
A while ago I used Audacity to record the output from the computer speakers by using PulseAudio Volume Control to redirect the output to the "microphone". It worked fine. I then used Effect > Change ...
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Why can't I record my microphone when audio is playing through my speakers?
I have a Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221 device in my Compaq Presario CQ-60 211DX, and I want to record a Cyberacoustics headset through it via a standard 3.5mm jack. When I do this normally, ...
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How to enhance 22.05 kHz speech audio material for listening purposes to 44.1 kHz?
I have found a really interesting radio novel on the web, and I would like to attract attention of one of my acquaintances to it. Unfortunately the audio material has poor quality, only 22.05 kHz and ...
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removing clicks from singer exceeding microphone range in audacity
So my wife recorded a song on her phone. And during the loud part of the song, she exceeded the microphone's ability to record. Now, I just learned I could zoom in really close to the nodes in song ...
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How do I create a WAV file that only plays on rear speakers?
How do I create or convert a WAV file to play only with rear speakers.
What Windows/Linux software could I use to do that?
I tried to use Audacity but with no results.
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Does the audacity software have global shortcuts?
Is it possible to record/stop/play in Audacity without having focus on the Audacity window? I.e. global shortcuts?
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How do I tune the flac options to store ripped music
Using Uuntu 10.4 with Audacity. I'd like to store ripped tracks taken from vinyl with a Sony LX300 turntable (and some CD tracks) in an archival format that I can later convert for use on a portable ...
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Audacity error importing .m4a file
Getting this error :
I have ffmpeg already installed on my system and also environment part has been set.
When searched on internet it was showing to install ffmpeg but I have ffmpeg installed on my ...
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Audacity allow to change both bitrate and sampling rate
Audacity lets to change both the sampling rate and bit rate while exporting the audio file.Does this mean that after the bit rate change the previously changed sampling rate is changed according to ...
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Audacity Nyquist plugin location in Ubuntu
In Ubuntu, is there a place in my home folder where I can put Nyquist plugins so that Audacity will see them?
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Choppy sound and recording in Audacity
I have an Audacity project with around 25 tracks, absolutely no overlap between them. I'm trying to record from a microphone with some overlap and the playback gets really chopped while recording and ...
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How to record multitrack in Audacity?
I have an Alesis 8 channel USB 2.0 Multimix. I can connect it to the computer through an USB port, obviously. How can I use Audacity to record multiple tracks from it, and have them separate inside ...
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How do I display stereo tracks as mono in Audacity?
I am editing a project in Audacity where everything is recorded with Stereo audio. This has the unfortunate side effect of making every track take up double the vertical space. If I convert each track ...
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FFmpeg errors "encoding frame failed" and "Can't encode audio frame" when attempting to export from Audacity
Attempting to use Audacity to export any type of audio file that is dependent on FFmpeg (AAC, Opus, etc.) fails with two successive dialog boxes:
FFmpeg: ERROR - encoding frame failed
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Installing Audacity plugins without administrative privileges
Is there a way to direct Audacity in the Program Files (x86) folder to look into my flash drive for its plugins?
I am not allowed to change any program files due to lack of administrative privilege, ...
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Using Audacity to find and eliminate spikes
I downloaded a song that, for whatever reason, has tiny (much too short to eliminate using noise removal) peaks laced throughout it. The track is a little over an hour long, so finding and repairing ...
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Compress the silence - audio file formats
How do you compress audio silence?
I'm using Audacity and have been exporting variable compression mp3s. But a 1minute audio track is about the same file size regardless of how much silence there is....
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