r/audacity

I have audacity on my laptop. I tried to record on it but it crashes after a few minutes of recording. I even tried recording on my phone, putting it on G-Drive and then convert it onto my computer, but it doesn't recognize it as an MP3. Am I doing it wrong or is my audacity broken?

Hey, so I was editing my podcast yesterday, and when my screen went to sleep, I clicked a few times, and something got messed up in my podcast. Now, most of the audio sounds really garbled and weird. I took the episode down because it sounds like ass. Does anyone know what I might have done wrong and how to fix it?

I've got a mid-quality mp3 file which I've been working with, but I recently got access to a wav version of the same file, with identical timing but higher quality.

Is there any way to replace the source of the clip so that I'm using the new one? I've done a lot of editing and the difference is noticeable, so it'd be nice if I could just replace A with B wherever I've put it.

I know about Normalize and Compression, but is there no simple way, like a slider to just lower and raise volume? I don't like how I have to open up a menu to change the volume, close it, then listen to the audio, realize it's not loud/quiet enough, then open the menu again and keep adjusting until it's good, like????? There's got to be a better way that I'm missing. OR if anybody could point me to another free recording app that's more intuitive, I'd like that too.

Hi I recently found my old minidiscs and player (Sony MZ-E300)

I have plugged it in via the headphone jack to my laptop but I don’t know how to select this as the source. I have clicked all the available options but the only thing it ever records is audio from the laptop built in microphone and not the disc playing. Please help thank you

Do i need any plug ins? Sorry, Im new to all of this.

I'm trying to run a very simple macro to normalize a bunch of tracks. The problem is that there are no options to set the file format of the export, and it seems to be defaulting to 16 bit. I don't see anywhere to change this. I even tried exporting a file manually at 32 float to see if it inherited the last used export format and it went back to 16 bit. This seems like a really obvious thing people would have solved, so can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I have some audio Instrumentals that I want to compress for a CD and able to fit more but I'm not sure what's the best output settings to have it so the file is small but Still sounds good

Audacity 3.7.7 Mac.

I'm trying to extract audio playing under primary audio on an mp3.

Here's the situation. I used to have a parakeet that "sang along" with the radio. Once, while taping a song on the radio by microphone, my parakeet, in another room, sang along with it for about ten seconds of the of the entire two-minute clip.

Is there a way to extract that parakeet's sound only from that clip?

Thanks.

So I've made the big and scary decision to start recording video essays, but for whatever reason I just feel like my audio quality is missing something, so I figured I'd ask about the best recommended settings for the specific mic (or any settings that generally improve sound quality regardless of microphone)

Please, I am begging for help, all the search engines and YouTube can't help me at all and I cannot find a single alternative program that can do what I'm looking for.

I'm trying to gradually change the pitch of an audio file, with it starting out at normal pitch but then slowly shifting into a deep pitch as it goes on. I'm aware that the sliding stretch and time tracks do something similar to this but it sounds extremely unnatural and robotic. I want the audio to naturally deepen in pitch as it goes on without sounding like a machine dying. Are there any techniques or third-party plugins that can do something similar?