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Questions tagged [audacity]

Questions about Audacity, a cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder.

Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

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Audacity doesn't work with pulseaudio anymore

UPDATE: Today's upgrade to alsa-lib-1.1.7-2 fixed the issue. (2018-11-23) Arch Linux, up-to-date. As so often, a -Syu upgrade broke things again. This time it's audacity. Usually audacity, and any other playback/record app would show up in…
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Real-time noise cancellation

I have a very noisy heater in my apartment producing a constant whining sound between 6230 and 6280 Hz. The frequency varies but seems to fall within this range. Other apartments in my building have this same problem and the landlord doesn't seem…
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How to clear background noises with sox

Is it possible to convert a mp4 file to mp3 or flac, clearing background noises in the process? Or is it possible to run audacity totally trough shell, No GUI?
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Can I send a keyboard shortcut to two applications (e.g. Audacity and VLC) and at the same time?

I am on Fedora 25 (x86_64) and I use XFCE desktop. I need to record a sound in sync with a video. Recording is done by Audacity and video playback is done by VLC. Currently, I have set global keyboard shortcut for VLC to pause and play the video…
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How to launch an application with different Gtk+ 2 theme?

I'm trying to use a dark Gtk+ theme, and everything goes fine with native Gtk+ apps, and well, only with Gtk+ apps. I mean, wxWidgets and Mozilla's apps looks terrible, if not counting unreadability (see screenshot below). Rendering Gtk's buttons…
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USB Audio detected by ALSA but not JACK?

I have a Presonus AudioBox USB device, connected to a USB 3 port, that supports both MIDI and Audio input. When I launch JACK and open the connection list from QJackCtl, I can see that the AudioBox device itself is detected, because I can see the…
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Assigning a global hotkey to a functionality of an appilcation in KDE

How can I set global shortcut keys to Pause and Record buttons in audacity? Options of vlc allow assigning global hotkeys but there's not such options in audacity.
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How to get audacity to recognize audio input without suspending pulseaudio?

I'm facing the issue that.. $ audacity ..starts audacity, but with missing inputs. $ pasuspender -- audacity ..starts audacity with all my inputs restored, so I can record from line-in, but then I cannot listen to music while doing so and there's…
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How to install VST plugins to Flatpak Audacity?

I want to install the GVST plugin pack so that Audacity (from Flatpak) can see it. I am using KDE Neon (fairly new, I'm not sure how to find the version number). I've tried various directories to copy the .so plugins to, but so far no success. I…
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OpenSuSE Leap 15.3: Update 2022-55 (1) (recommended update for audacity) fails due to missing ffmpeg-3

Every time I'd like to update my OpenSuSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64) system, the software updater in the systray stumbles upon a recommended update for audacity (2022-55 (1)). It always fails to get installed due to a missing ffmpeg-3 package: nothing…
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Can't get line-in input into apps

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 on an HP laptop and having trouble getting Audacity to record a track from line-in input. This may or may not be an issue with Audacity, it just acts like there's no line-in signal from my guitar amplifier and records the…
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Microphone not showing up in Audacity

The mic is visible in "PulseAudio volume control". It is not muted and volume is at 100%. I can see it picks sounds. It is also visible in arecord: $ arecord -l | tail -n 3 card 3: Microphone [Trust GXT 232 Microphone], device 0: USB Audio [USB…
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Audacity won't start after upgrade to Debian Sid (relocation error)

ever since I upgraded Debian stable to Debian sid I cannot start audacity. It gives me this error when I start from command line: audacity: relocation error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0.so.0: symbol…
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Is there a version of Audacity that will run on Alpine Linux?

I was trying to get the Gentoo version from the Audacity website, but as far as I can tell, Audacity is not ready for Gentoo Linux yet. Anyone know if the Ubuntu version will work on Alpine? Or one of the others?
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Snowball microphone no longer shared between applications

I recently bought a Snowball USB microphone for a podcast. Previously, I would record my track using audacity, and simultaneously use the microphone for Skype. I tried to do this yesterday and was unable to do so. If I record with the microphone…
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