The all-new "HELP! I have an Audacity problem" thread
Does importing and exporting a file in and out of Audacity a lot cause the sound quality to become lossy? I've had to do...a lot of editing to a recording I'm working on, and I seem to notice that the older sections sound a little hissy compared to new sections I've had to edit in.
For the time being, I'll need a little more time than usual to PL sections that come in on weekdays. Thanks for your patience.
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Exporting to MP3 and re-importing from it, multiple times, will cause a degradation of quality. Exporting to and importing from FLAC or WAV will not - they're lossless file types. (FLAC ends up as a smaller file size than WAV.)
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And, of course, you can save your project in the Audacity native format (.aup).Scarbo wrote: ↑September 29th, 2020, 11:42 am Does importing and exporting a file in and out of Audacity a lot cause the sound quality to become lossy? I've had to do...a lot of editing to a recording I'm working on, and I seem to notice that the older sections sound a little hissy compared to new sections I've had to edit in.
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I am having problems with Audacity and flac. My main question is: is there anywhere in Audacity that shows you exactly what file you have up on the screen?
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Every once in awhile when I am attempting to edit a recording, I apparently accidentally click on something that makes the whole track drop down so that only the top half of it is visible. In other words, the "zero" level (at the left end) is at the bottom instead of the middle. Then I have to go through all sorts of machinations to have the track where is belongs. Usually I have to save the whole thing and then past it into a new, empty track. Is there a way, when this track problem happens, to easily move the track back up where it should be?
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The first option under the Edit menu in Audacity is Undo. I'm not sure it will solve your problem, but it would be worth a try.
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This sounds like a zoom issue. If it happens again, try right clicking on the space with the numbers (0 level, 0.5, etc) and choose "Zoom reset" to see if it helps.Shasta wrote: ↑October 1st, 2020, 11:44 am Every once in awhile when I am attempting to edit a recording, I apparently accidentally click on something that makes the whole track drop down so that only the top half of it is visible. In other words, the "zero" level (at the left end) is at the bottom instead of the middle. Then I have to go through all sorts of machinations to have the track where is belongs. Usually I have to save the whole thing and then past it into a new, empty track. Is there a way, when this track problem happens, to easily move the track back up where it should be?
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You left-clicked the vertical scale on the left. Right-click it. (It takes some extra clicks one way or the other.) I do this all.the.time.Shasta wrote: ↑October 1st, 2020, 11:44 am Every once in awhile when I am attempting to edit a recording, I apparently accidentally click on something that makes the whole track drop down so that only the top half of it is visible. In other words, the "zero" level (at the left end) is at the bottom instead of the middle. Then I have to go through all sorts of machinations to have the track where is belongs. Usually I have to save the whole thing and then past it into a new, empty track. Is there a way, when this track problem happens, to easily move the track back up where it should be?
EDIT: Rapunzelina says the same thing, easier than I did.
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Thank you for your suggestions regarding the wave drop. I haven't yet figured out the solution, but at least I know where I made my mistake and where i may be able to correct it.
Now I have another question about another annoying problem. I use an iMac computer for doing my recording and record with a Yeti (Blue) Multidirectional Stereo Microphone. Much of the time everything proceeds pretty well and then, out of the blue, I get this error message:
"Error opening recording device.
Error Code - 9997 Invalid Sample Rate."
There is a link that gives more information about this error code. For this code number is says that I should be sure that my Audacity "sample rate" matches the sample rate of my "device". The Audacity sample rate 44100 Hz. The recording device is my Yeti (Blue) Stereo Microphone and, at the moment, I have no idea what its "sample rate" is, if it has one. It is certainly nothing that I have fiddled with that should cause this error message to pop up.
Now I have another question about another annoying problem. I use an iMac computer for doing my recording and record with a Yeti (Blue) Multidirectional Stereo Microphone. Much of the time everything proceeds pretty well and then, out of the blue, I get this error message:
"Error opening recording device.
Error Code - 9997 Invalid Sample Rate."
There is a link that gives more information about this error code. For this code number is says that I should be sure that my Audacity "sample rate" matches the sample rate of my "device". The Audacity sample rate 44100 Hz. The recording device is my Yeti (Blue) Stereo Microphone and, at the moment, I have no idea what its "sample rate" is, if it has one. It is certainly nothing that I have fiddled with that should cause this error message to pop up.
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Hi Everyone,
I have upgraded to a new computer (Lenovo Yoga C740 running Windows 10) and have downloaded the latest version of Audacity. Everything was working fine, but while editing a file, I noticed that the volume had gone from 89 to 75 db and when I tried to amplify it back, I couldn't do so without clipping. I must have touched something wrong on the touch screen. Any ideas?
My best,
Pam
I have upgraded to a new computer (Lenovo Yoga C740 running Windows 10) and have downloaded the latest version of Audacity. Everything was working fine, but while editing a file, I noticed that the volume had gone from 89 to 75 db and when I tried to amplify it back, I couldn't do so without clipping. I must have touched something wrong on the touch screen. Any ideas?
My best,
Pam
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Did you bump the little Gain slider on the left side of the track?
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Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
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Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart