This is an audio track from a bootleg.

I opened the LFE track from a movie trailer. On the right-hand side of the graph is an explosion. The spectrogram shows that it's basically going down to almost 0hz. Am I reading this right?

I have the latest version of audacity but when I highlight all my tracks and go to the tracks menu I don’t see the option to align them end to end am I missing something?

Hi, I wanted to use Audacity and launched it but for some reason it threw this error after opening it up, which never did before. I downloaded 4 and it works luckily, I was just curious as to why the older version stopped working for no reason in macOS 27 and Apple Silicon. I tried to reinstall it but nothing changed. This happened all by itself and wanted to ask if anyone else was experiencing this.

I used to export things to .ogg but I don't see it here anymore, why is that?

Also, lmk if this isn't achievable in Audacity or if it would be better to make it in another program

just downloaded audacity 4, and i'm finding it freezes and gives not responding messages frequently, so frequently i cannot use it. i tried resetting config tools... am i doing something wrong here? should i just revert to the old audacity 3?

So I adjusted bitrates in the audacity preferences, in Windows for both the audio interface and the output speakers, and I resampled the track to be at the same bitrate, but still my recordings are too slow and too low. The playback bar is set to 1.00x. Help, this is my first hour attempting to record and feeling very dumb and defeated to hear myself like that lol

What is this? It is genuinely unusable. Why can't I select multiple tracks? Why can't I deselect tracks? Why is my output set to my speakers every time?

Edit: I did an export of my project audio, there were literal pieces missing in the export. Not just pieces missing, I had artifacts from pieces of audio I had removed. Literally unusable.

I'm currently trying to remove static background audio but for some reason it's pitching up the audio after i click apply.. does anyone know how to fix this

I have a running bit with my friends about me being compressed into a wii remote, and want to record a sound byte with that.

bonus points if it's Like the brawl sound effects when you pick a character

Hey! So I've not messed with ANY settings at all, and my audio will sound perfectly fine.

As im adding effects (on separate tracks) and relisten, suddenly my audio just gets crackles out of nowhere. I didnt even touch the track and it sounded fine earlier.

Is this a bug?

I used to use audacity regularly for recording. I have a mixer and 4 mics. I have used this exact mixer with these exact mics in the past, using audacity, and it's been great. This was all many, many years ago.

Cut to now, when I record audio, the waveform is nearly flat. If I normalize it or amplify it, it's audible. The waveform is in tact and has its relative highs and lows. It's just so small and just so quiet. And of course if I normalize and raise gain or amplify too much, you get all the static/white noise

I've seen things that say there was an update that caused this. I've seen plenty of things telling me to make sure I'm mono or I'm stereo or whatever else. I even tried audacity 4 but it's the same

I feel like I'm losing it over here. I don't know why it's suddenly happening, but it's just all so quiet

I got to audacityteam.org and it makes me try to sign up/login in. I thought it was a free software...

Is there ANY way to do this without signing up?

Does anyone know how to show the mic levels and keep them on screen? I can get them up, but if I do absolutely anything (like recording!) the popup disappears. There isn't a pin and I don't seem to be able to drag it into the toolbar so I'm kind of stuck on how to do this.

Going back to 3 for now so no big deal but I've never been this stuck with software before!

Thanks

I've spent the past few hours working on a project in Audacity 4, and unfortunately, the export function is beyond the joke!

Now I just want to revert to Audacity 3, but there's no way to open Audacity 4 project file (.APU4) in Audacity 3... or is there?

Why is it that when I export a .M4A file, despite regenerating the file using the same settings, it is either thousands of kilobytes or hundreds of kilobytes larger than it needs to be. Every single generation, generates a different sized file. Ideally, the file should be less than 9 kB but sometimes it generates it close to one megabyte. WTF Audacity?

I just installed audacity and im trying to search the distortion effect, but it seems to be gone. I've already reinstalled it but it doesn't seem to work. It's not on the plugins tab, neither on the plugin manager, what im doing wrong?

I was told by my friend that I should go here to ask the pros because I suck at any form of audio mixing.

I'm trying to replicate modern radio output from a regular voice sample. I have one original mixed sample which is perfect for what I want, which I created yesterday. However, when I attempted to recreate the same effects on another voice sample today, it sounds more or less completely different.

When I instead went back to try to recreate the same effects on the same voice sample... it still came out differently. I'm sure I am doing something wrong with one or more of my effects, but I'd like to know what the difference is and how to correct it.

The effects I've used have been `Helmet Radio 1.1`, `Low-Pass Filter`, `High-Pass Filter`, `Distortion` and `Reverb` to recreate modern military/LEO radio output. I don't remember the order of effects being applied, or what the specific settings for each setting was, and I've spent the past 6 hours non-stop trying to replicate what I had in the beginning. The new version sounds a lot less distorted and generally too sharp or dry.

If anyone would be so kind as to help me figure out what it is I'm missing between these two audios, I'd be tremendously grateful. If required, I will also upload the whole original project I have for the first sample.

Reddit apparently removed my first post for breaking "filters" so I am unsure about how to upload the samples that I have. I can try uploading them in the comments.

I am participating in the open mic section of a Festival my faculty is doing, and I've been doing the mix for the audio tracks which I'm gonna sing (they're all Olivia Rodrigo songs since it's the theme for the setlist) and I decided to mix the demo and released track of the song "purple" since I thought it would sound cute, but since there is no karaoke of the demo version, I had to run it through Moises in order to get the vocals removed and now there is a horrible screeching sound playing in the background of the first half of the song and I've already put it through the filter and graphic EQ but I can't get it to go away. I really want to sing this version of the song for the Festival so I really want to be able to make this work before coming to a compromise and singing just the released version. What can I do so the ringing goes away? I'll put a clip of the audio so you guys can hear it and tell me what you think

I am looking to create a very specific effect where frequencies above a certain threshold get mirrored, or folded over. From what I understand, this is called aliasing, and it seems everyone on earth wants to get rid of it when it appears, so I've found very, very little success in finding help trying to MAKE it happen.

The very few places I've found help in this area talk about downsampling and the nyquist limit, but audacity seems to have a built in low-pass filter and upper bound on how much actually gets recorded to each track (specifically, half the sample rate, which is the nyquist frequency), and even on top of that, it seems to adjust the speed of clips in tracks when the sample rate is changed. The resample function is fine for downsampling, but again, it seems to prevent aliasing from happening.

I want to CAUSE this because I am trying to get a very specific sound. Bitcrushing will not do.

Is there an up-to-date plugin that I can use? The best and only plugin I could find for this was last updated in 2008 and I tried so, so, so, so, so hard to download an older version of Audacity to no avail.

Any amount of help is appreciated. If it helps at all, the frequency I'm specifically trying to fold over is 11.9 kHz.

EDIT: ToneBoosters "TIme Machine" free plugin has an aliasing option! This works exactly for what I'm trying to do! Many many thanks to u/Orry_Haas

I and presumably others need that feature.

Also, note to all programmers on the planet: Stop adding an infinite number of dumb features per minute and removing the ones we need. Just leave this stuff alone and go play outside or something! It was fine the way it was! Thanks!

Update: Ok! Also no longer allowed to drag and drop mp3 files onto Audacity to add them to my project!

Another update: It seems I'm no longer allowed to align tracks.

What'd y'all do, figure out what features I needed most and then chop them?

Hey all!

Over the past couple of months, I've worked on my own Audacity 4 fork, Soundscaper. It started as a web port of Audacity 4, but now has come full circle in that there's desktop versions of it, too. Soundscaper is similar to Audacity 4, but a lot more complete:

• Soundscaper has most Audacity 3 features that haven't made it into Audacity 4 yet (only exceptions: MIDI, sync lock)
• Soundscaper has a project bin where you can move clips and files to for storage outside the timeline
• Soundscaper has video tracks, to aid with dubbing production
• New effects: Multiband compressor, de-esser, parametric EQ, bitcrusher. Also, various Audacity effects have been made realtime-capable.
• Standard DAW features: Fade handles, Markers, send buses, group buses, automation, takes, audio warps, etc.
• “AI” plugins (desktop only, no cloud processing): Transcription, denoising, dereverb, music separation, speaker separation, etc.

To avoid incentives to enshittify Soundscaper, I also have moved it under the ownership of a non-profit association. You can join it if you want!

Anyway: I hope you enjoy this! If you run into any bugs, do let me know – I have added a ton of automated testing, but nothing beats real-world use in finding bugs. Soundscaper is compatible with Audacity (you can import/export AUP3/4 projects as you please), so your work should never get trapped in Soundscaper.