TODO - my LibriVox setup notes - https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/User:Spiralofhope/1-Minute_Test_redux

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Chocolatey: audacity
https://www.audacityteam.org/

A free audio recording / editing suite.

Very capable, but rather confusing.

See also:

• LibriVox recommends using this.

• Recording

• Push To Talk works when Audacity is not focused.
• https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

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• 2020-09-23 - 2.4.2 on Windows 10 Home

• 2020-09-23 - 2.3.2 on Windows 10 Home

  • Being used for some time.
• 2019-04-21 - 2.3.1 on Windows 10 Home
• 2018-07-10 - 2.2.2 on Windows 10 Home
• earlier than 2018-07-10 - 2.1.3 on on Windows 10
• 2017-07-08 - 2.0.6 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
• 2017-05-31 - (version not recorded) on Devuan beta1
• 2017-05-13 - 2.0.2.0 on Pandora SuperZaxxon176
• 2017-05-12 - 2.1.3 on Windows 10
• earlier - 2.1.0 on Windows 10
• (date not recorded) - 2.1.3 and earlier on Linux (distributions not recorded)

• 2009-01-24 - 1.3.3-beta (Unicode) on (distribution not recorded)

2020-09-23 - 2.4.2 ∞

• The equalization settings were silently changed, and the user is expected to hunt around for a solution.

  • "Graphic EQ" and "Filter Curve" were created.
  • https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/eq_xml_to_txt_converter.html
  • Tools > Add / Remove Plug-ins...
  • enable eq-xml-to-txt-converter
  • Tools > EQ XML to TXT Converter
  • .. and I can't figure out where my old EQ stuff is. Whatever, I'll just redo everything from scratch. In my case I used the filter curve. I'm glad I kept good notes from the earlier version.
  • Tools > Add / Remove Plug-ins...
  • disable eq-xml-to-txt-converter

2020-09-23 - 2.3.2 ∞

• I was forced to update because it a crash when editing equalization settings in a macro.

  • The update was to 2.4.2
  • fixed in 2.3.2

2017-07-08 - 2.0.6 ∞

• bug 1315 - AIFF extension always added

Exporting doesn't produce anything ∞

Exporting as m4a, either with the defaults or my own presets for Vimeo will only produce a short file. For longer projects, it will take time to export yet the file is the same small thing.

This worked in my previous Devuan installation.

I tried this based on some list I found on the audacity wiki (whose link I forgot to record):

\apt-get  install audacity-data libasound2 libavcodec56 libavformat56 libavutil54 libc6 libexpat1 libflac++6 libflac8 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libid3tag0 libmad0 libmp3lame0 libogg0 libportaudio2 libportsmf0 libsbsms10 libsndfile1 libsoundtouch0 libsoxr0 libstdc++6 libtwolame0 libvamp-hostsdk3 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libwxbase3.0-0 libwxgtk3.0-0

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libavcodec-extra libavcodec-extra-56
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libavcodec56

2009-01-24 - 1.3.3-beta (Unicode) ∞

Fails hard. I have to quit out of it after attempting one record.

I can't figure out how to properly write audio to disk. Why can't it just be magic? Sigh.

I made Ripping protected audio

Usage ∞

• Macros are stored in %appdata%\audacity\Macros

Ripping protected audio ∞

From 2009-01-24 - 1.3.3-beta (Unicode)

Overly complicated interface.

1. Preferences > Check your input/output settings. I changed mine to "ALSA (default)"
2. click record

3. begin the playback of your protected audio