Audacity

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:52:17 -0700
"bob cavanaugh" <bobdavcav@...> wrote:
> High all, I just did a recording of a radio station the other day... a sort
> of high-pitched noise is heard for a few seconds. Is there any way I can get
> rid of this

Try selecting the few seconds that has the noise, and Analyze > Plot 
Spectrum. If you could see the spectrum this would hopefully show you 
a spike towards the right (high frequency) side of the plot where the 
audio was much louder at that frequency than either side of it. 

Then you would use Notch Filter (extra plug-in) or Effect > Nyquist
Prompt to filter out the frequency where the spike was. You can read
more about this and download Notch Filter here: 
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Removal#Other_Techniques

Since you can't I assume see the spectrum plot, export it using the 
"Export" button, open it in a text editor, then look for a frequency on 
the left where the level on the right has much smaller negative numbers
than the values above or below it in the list.  For example, this:

10766.601563	-41.084888
10852.734375	-27.513941
10938.867188	-8.378978
11025.000000	-5.945557
11111.132813	-16.059376
11197.265625	-36.729332
11283.398438	-45.824223
11369.531250	-50.926151

indicates a frequency centred on about 11000 Hz that is much louder 
than other audio in surrounding frequencies. So filter out 11000 Hz in 
that case.   


> After I ran the truncate silence effect, I thought that everything would
> be fine. However, I sometimes the audio cuts out, usually in a 
> commercial... Also, during commercials, the person talking's voice
> seems to be sped up at some parts of the commercial. 

Was it recorded like this or a result of Truncate Silence? If a result of 
Truncate Silence, increase the "Min silence duration", reduce the 
compression factor if "Max silence duration" exceeds "Min silence 
duration", and/or make the "Threshold for silence" a larger negative 
number (such as -60 dB instead of -40 dB). More help on that here:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Truncate_Silence
 



Gale

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:25:17 -0400
Tony Carr <carrt7@...> wrote:
> (Audacity  1.3.12beta, Windows7, HP530 laptop)
> I suggest a small improvement.
> 
> I often need to adjust the volume or tone of a segment of a compilation, so
> that it matches the rest of the track.
> 
> If I adjust (say) the equalization, but the result is disappointing, I can
> Edit > Undo to restore the original segment, and then Effect > Equalize will
> show me *exactly what I did last time*.  This makes it very easy to add a
> little less treble, or a little more, to correct whatever was wrong with the
> last attempt.
> 
> (This is better than making repeated serial corrections, which will degrade
> the fidelity a little at each successive step).
> 
> The exception is Effect > Amplify.  When I Undo, then return to Amplify,
> there is no way to tell how much I amplifed/reduced last time.  The
> indicator always tells me how much I need to amplify to hit maximum
> unclipped signal.  This is a pity.
> 
> Would it be possible to have a "ghost" indicator, to show what setting the
> user employed last time?   Tony

I guess there would be three ways to do it 1) an additional "Last 
Amplification (dB)" box and a pre-filled (unchangeable) box 
"Amplification (dB) to full scale", either of which you can choose
with a radio button; 2) a text display of the last value applied; 3) a 
checkbox "Show last applied Amplification (dB)" which when checked, 
displays that value in the "Amplification (dB)" box and pre-fills it with 
that value on next use. 

I think I'd prefer (3) but I'll add a vote for your idea to the Wiki Feature
Requests page. 

There is a workaround: click View > History which is a modeless window 
so you can work in the project while keeping it open. It should stay on top
of the main project window  on Windows and Linux but it may not stay on 
top on Mac. The only problem is that if you open an .aup project file (as 
opposed to importing a file or generating or recording), Effect > Amplify 
then Undo, you won't be able to access the History. This is because its
menu item is greyed when there is nothing to Undo (a minor bug).  




Gale

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:53 PM, <gale@...> wrote:

> > The exception is Effect > Amplify.  When I Undo, then return to Amplify,
> > there is no way to tell how much I amplifed/reduced last time.  The
> > indicator always tells me how much I need to amplify to hit maximum
> > unclipped signal.  This is a pity.
>


> I guess there would be three ways to do it 1) an additional "Last
> Amplification (dB)" box and a pre-filled (unchangeable) box
> "Amplification (dB) to full scale", either of which you can choose
> with a radio button; 2) a text display of the last value applied; 3) a
> checkbox "Show last applied Amplification (dB)" which when checked,
> displays that value in the "Amplification (dB)" box and pre-fills it with
> that value on next use.
>
> I think I'd prefer (3) but I'll add a vote for your idea to the Wiki
> Feature
> Requests page.
>
> There is a workaround: click View > History which is a modeless window
> so you can work in the project while keeping it open. It should stay on top
> of the main project window  on Windows and Linux but it may not stay on
> top on Mac. The only problem is that if you open an .aup project file (as
> opposed to importing a file or generating or recording), Effect > Amplify
> then Undo, you won't be able to access the History. This is because its
> menu item is greyed when there is nothing to Undo (a minor bug).
>
> Fantastic. Thanks.  And any of the 3 mods would suit me fine.

(Almost on the same topic)  If I want to select a new segment of a track
starting exactly at the end of the last labelled segment, how do I do it?
Tony

Tony,

Just click and drag the new selection.  It will stick slightly at any label
boundary and highlight in yellow a line at the boundary.  It works
very well.

Gordon Weast


Tony Carr wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:53 PM, <gale@... 
> <mailto:gale@...>> wrote:
>
>     > The exception is Effect > Amplify.  When I Undo, then return to
>     Amplify,
>     > there is no way to tell how much I amplifed/reduced last time.  The
>     > indicator always tells me how much I need to amplify to hit maximum
>     > unclipped signal.  This is a pity.
>
>  
>
>     I guess there would be three ways to do it 1) an additional "Last
>     Amplification (dB)" box and a pre-filled (unchangeable) box
>     "Amplification (dB) to full scale", either of which you can choose
>     with a radio button; 2) a text display of the last value applied; 3) a
>     checkbox "Show last applied Amplification (dB)" which when checked,
>     displays that value in the "Amplification (dB)" box and pre-fills
>     it with
>     that value on next use.
>
>     I think I'd prefer (3) but I'll add a vote for your idea to the
>     Wiki Feature
>     Requests page.
>
>     There is a workaround: click View > History which is a modeless window
>     so you can work in the project while keeping it open. It should
>     stay on top
>     of the main project window  on Windows and Linux but it may not
>     stay on
>     top on Mac. The only problem is that if you open an .aup project
>     file (as
>     opposed to importing a file or generating or recording), Effect >
>     Amplify
>     then Undo, you won't be able to access the History. This is
>     because its
>     menu item is greyed when there is nothing to Undo (a minor bug).
>
> Fantastic. Thanks.  And any of the 3 mods would suit me fine.
>
> (Almost on the same topic)  If I want to select a new segment of a 
> track starting exactly at the end of the last labelled segment, how do 
> I do it?  Tony
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If you are working with 32 bit audio, in terms of sound quality it is
perfectly acceptable to adjust the amplitude in incremental steps. The
Amplify effect is so accurate that for modest amplification amounts it can
be repeated thousands of times with no audible loss of quality.

To create a new selection to the Right of the current selection, hold down
the SHIFT key then click and drag the Left edge of the current selection to
the right.

To create a new selection to the Left of the current selection, hold down
the SHIFT key then click and drag the Right edge of the current selection to
the left.
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Stevethefiddle
<stevethefiddle@...:

>
> If you are working with 32 bit audio, in terms of sound quality it is
> perfectly acceptable to adjust the amplitude in incremental steps. The
> Amplify effect is so accurate that for modest amplification amounts it can
> be repeated thousands of times with no audible loss of quality.
>
> OK.  I take it this is not the case with more complex changes (like
Equalization)?


> To create a new selection to the Right of the current selection, hold down
> the SHIFT key then click and drag the Left edge of the current selection to
> the right.


You guys are good at this!  I found it really tricky.
One must:
- click the last label to highlight the last selection, then hit ENTER to
exit the label-nametag
- with it still highlighted, move the cursor along the labels track until
the finger points to the LINE (not the ball or the sucker-cup) that
indicates the right-hand edge of the last selection
- left-click and drag the cursor to the right, to the desired point.
*
or (giving better control of the end-point)*

- click the last label to highlight the last selection, then hit ENTER to
exit the label-nametag
- give a single hit on the right-arrow key to unselect the last labelled
segment
- hold down SHIFT and use the right arrow to get to the desired point.

I couldn't follow Gordon or Steve's instructions - I always got a new
selection INCLUDING the last one.  Evidently I'm not following them
precisely.  But now I'm all sorted - thanks guys.  Tony
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:48:41 -0400
Tony Carr <carrt7@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Stevethefiddle
> <stevethefiddle@...:
> 
> >
> > If you are working with 32 bit audio, in terms of sound quality it is
> > perfectly acceptable to adjust the amplitude in incremental steps. The
> > Amplify effect is so accurate that for modest amplification amounts it can
> > be repeated thousands of times with no audible loss of quality.
> >
> > OK.  I take it this is not the case with more complex changes (like
> Equalization)?

Steve's quite correct about there being little or no quality or noise floor
penalty in adjusting amplitude in 32-bit projects (Quality Preferences 
set to 32-bit float, which is the default).  I almost made that point, except
that repeatedly amplifying and undoing until I get what I want is something
I do a lot. Personally I think it's far easier to undo, remembering what
amplification you did last time, rather than apply the original attempt and
then apply an adjustment to that. Plus there is a considerable disk space 
penalty in applying effects (or any edit) repeatedly without undoing, 
because every repeated edit that is not undone will fill the Undo History. 

In practice, I too find that if you go on trying to get the "best" EQ by 
modifying the last one, the quality deteriorates so that it's better to undo
all the attempts and start over. I don't think 32-bit quality helps so much 
here, because EQ is doing a FIR filter using FFT.   

 
> > To create a new selection to the Right of the current selection, hold down
> > the SHIFT key then click and drag the Left edge of the current selection to
> > the right.
> 
> 
> You guys are good at this!  I found it really tricky.
> One must:
> - click the last label to highlight the last selection, then hit ENTER to
> exit the label-nametag
> - with it still highlighted, move the cursor along the labels track until
> the finger points to the LINE (not the ball or the sucker-cup) that
> indicates the right-hand edge of the last selection
> - left-click and drag the cursor to the right, to the desired point.
> *
> or (giving better control of the end-point)*
> 
> - click the last label to highlight the last selection, then hit ENTER to
> exit the label-nametag
> - give a single hit on the right-arrow key to unselect the last labelled
> segment
> - hold down SHIFT and use the right arrow to get to the desired point.
> 
> I couldn't follow Gordon or Steve's instructions - I always got a new
> selection INCLUDING the last one.  Evidently I'm not following them
> precisely.  But now I'm all sorted - thanks guys.  Tony

You can do it even more simply with the keyboard if you set a binding 
in Keyboard Preferences for Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection Start  
and Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection End. If you use those shortcuts
you don't need to ENTER to close the label edit, just click in the label 
then use the shortcut. 

Using the mouse you don't need to use ENTER either. As Gordon suggested
you can click in the label then hover over the selection edge in the 
waveform (not in the label track). When for example you drag the left edge 
rightwards past the old right edge, that old edge becomes the new left edge.
Note in some previous Betas the edge being dragged over moved slightly, 
but it should work correctly in the current 1.3.12 Beta. 





Gale

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:03 AM, <gale@...> wrote:

> (selecting and labelling contiguous portions of a track)
> You can do it even more simply with the keyboard if you set a binding
> in Keyboard Preferences for Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection Start
> and Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection End. If you use those shortcuts
> you don't need to ENTER to close the label edit, just click in the label
> then use the shortcut.
>
> Using the mouse you don't need to use ENTER either. As Gordon suggested
> you can click in the label then hover over the selection edge in the
> waveform (not in the label track). When for example you drag the left edge
> rightwards past the old right edge, that old edge becomes the new left
> edge.
> Note in some previous Betas the edge being dragged over moved slightly,
> but it should work correctly in the current 1.3.12 Beta.
>
> Ooh, that's nice!  Especially if you hate mice as much as I do (on
laptops!)

To label successive songs on a 1-hour track took barely a minute.
- CTL-p, Keyboard, Keyboard, Category Edit, MoveCursorToSelectionEnd (near
the bottom of long list), insert (say) ">", Set, Save, OK
- with last selection highlighted, >, SHIFT+cursor right to end of song,
CTL-b, type label, ENTER
- repeat last step

This is a neat program.  Tony
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:03 AM, <gale@...> wrote:

> (selecting and labelling contiguous portions of a track)
>>
>> You can do it even more simply with the keyboard if you set a binding
>> in Keyboard Preferences for Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection Start
>> and Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection End. If you use those shortcuts
>> you don't need to ENTER to close the label edit, just click in the label
>> then use the shortcut.
>>
>> To label successive songs on a 1-hour track took barely a minute.
> - CTL-p, Keyboard, Keyboard, Category Edit, MoveCursorToSelectionEnd (near
> the bottom of long list), insert (say) ">", Set, Save, OK
> - with last selection highlighted, >, SHIFT+cursor right to end of song,
> CTL-b, type label, ENTER
> - repeat last step
>
> Oops?  It seems to have stopped working.  I actually used the "." key as my
MoveCursorToSelectionEnd hotkey, and it worked for a while.  It's still
there in Preferences, but now it always sets me to the LEFT end (ie the
start) of my current selection.

Example:  on stereo track with labelled songs, click a label (selection
highlights), press ENTER (otherwise the hotkey will get added to the
label!), press . key - cursor moves to start of selected song - regardless
of where my mouse cursor is at the time.

Have I forgotten something?  Tony




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>




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On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:14:21 -0400
Tony Carr <carrt7@...> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:03 AM, <gale@...> wrote:
> 
> > (selecting and labelling contiguous portions of a track)
> >>
> >> You can do it even more simply with the keyboard if you set a binding
> >> in Keyboard Preferences for Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection Start
> >> and Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection End. If you use those shortcuts
> >> you don't need to ENTER to close the label edit, just click in the label
> >> then use the shortcut.
> >>
> >> To label successive songs on a 1-hour track took barely a minute.
> > - CTL-p, Keyboard, Keyboard, Category Edit, MoveCursorToSelectionEnd (near
> > the bottom of long list), insert (say) ">", Set, Save, OK
> > - with last selection highlighted, >, SHIFT+cursor right to end of song,
> > CTL-b, type label, ENTER
> > - repeat last step
> >
> > Oops?  It seems to have stopped working.  I actually used the "." key as my
> MoveCursorToSelectionEnd hotkey, and it worked for a while.  It's still
> there in Preferences, but now it always sets me to the LEFT end (ie the
> start) of my current selection.
> 
> Example:  on stereo track with labelled songs, click a label (selection
> highlights), press ENTER (otherwise the hotkey will get added to the
> label!), press . key - cursor moves to start of selected song - regardless
> of where my mouse cursor is at the time.

You probably have messed up keyboard bindings due to Bug 229:
http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229

which lets you add keyboard shortcuts that are already allocated 
unless you add them using the "All" category. "." is already taken by
"Cursor Short Jump Right", and like all the "Jump" shortcuts, it acts 
the same as Edit > Move Cursor > to Selection Start when there is a
selection. I'm not quite sure why the Jump shortcuts just don't jump the 
cursor the appropriate distance from the start of the selection instead
of only moving it to the start of the selection, but currently that's what 
they do.  

To fix your problem, I would open the Keyboard Preferences, select the 
"All" category, click in one of the commands and type c until it finds 
"Cursor Short Jump Right". Press the "Clear" button to remove its 
binding to "." then you can add "." to Move Cursor to Selection End. 

If the bug has really messed the shortcuts up, press the "Defaults" 
button and start over. 





Gale

WinXp v1.3.12

Hi, i make this sound for revenge of the cats game. In some point i forget to write the delay parameters. I mean; i write my actions in a notepad to see how i made an audio file.
The question is: is there an option to have a log of the actions? something simple like:

track1: add amplify -bla bla dB
track2: add delay .....bla bla preset: bla bla

That will be very usefull

Well, there is the Undo History (View, History...), and it's sort of like a
log. You could make it really big and then take a screenshot (Alt+PrtSc)

--Josiah

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Romeo X <pruebaice@...> wrote:

>  WinXp v1.3.12
>
> Hi, i make this sound<http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hkd840kf5n0qp89>for revenge of the cats game. In some point i forget to write the delay
> parameters. I mean; i write my actions in a notepad to see how i made an
> audio file.
> The question is: is there an option to have a log of the actions? something
> simple like:
>
> track1: add amplify -bla bla dB
> track2: add delay .....bla bla preset: bla bla
>
> That will be very usefull
>
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:15:09 -0500
Romeo X <pruebaice@...> wrote:
> 
> i've been looking for the official manual of audacity in spanish, i can't 
> find it.

The Beta Manual is here: 
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

but there is no complete translation into any non-English language 
yet. Only eight pages are translated into Spanish. Some students 
from Latin America were helping with that a while ago. 

 
> if you are thinkin' to do. I offer me to help in text translation.
> LA Spanish (Español latinoamericano).

All help will be welcome. The translation of the Manual is done online
using Wiki formatting, but apart from learning how Wiki links work
you don't need to be a Wiki expert. 

You need an account to edit the Manual Wiki. If you would like an 
account, please let me know off-list. 


Thanks 



Gale

Hey guys, in the future could be integrated PRAAT tools to Audacity?

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:16:47 -0500
Romeo X <pruebaice@...> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys, in the future could be integrated PRAAT tools to Audacity?

We can add a vote for that as a "Feature Request" (no licensing objections 
as PRAAT is GPL). Maybe some time a "bridge" could be written between
Audacity and PRAAT but that isn't in the near future. 

You may be able to find some VAMP plug-ins you can use in Audacity for
analysis:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Analyze_Menu#vamp

The "Queen Mary" set of VAMP plug-ins has a plug-in for MFCC calculations,
I see. 




Gale

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:47:42 -0400
Tony Carr <carrt7@...> wrote:
> (Audacity 1.3.12beta, Win7, HP530 laptop)
> 
> In a long stereo compilation track, I carefully label each song.  Then I
> select one song (by label) and press CTL-X, move the music-cursor along to
> where I want it placed, and do CTL-V.  (I have to have the mouse cursor over
> the music track, otherwise Audacity complains "not allowed to paste one kind
> of track into another".
> 
> The song and its label disappear.  Then the song reappears in its new
> position, but the label doesn't!  So all subsequent songs move right along
> the time axis, and are out of step with their labels!
> 
> This doesn't seem very intuitive ... I've missed something?   Tony

In 1.3.12, if you cut audio in both the audio track and the label track, 
the following labels will move. 

You can paste both audio and label if you select in both the audio track
and the label track before you paste. To do that, click in the waveform 
where you want to paste, hold down SHIFT then down arrow (which
selects in the label track as well). Now you can paste both label and 
audio.   

However this will not move the following labels along. If you want 
to move the labels along with paste you will have to use the "Nightly
Build" (1.3.13 alpha):
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nightly_Builds

then enable Sync-Lock by pressing the "Sync-Lock Tracks" button 
(the clock symbol in the Edit Toolbar). Alternatively, click Tracks >
Sync-Lock Tracks. With Sync-Lock enabled, cuts and pastes will 
always affect labels, but you still have to select in both audio and 
label track to paste audio-with-label. Cuts and pastes will also affect 
all tracks in a group of multiple tracks, even if you don't select all 
the tracks.

Sync-Lock will be in 1.3.13 Beta when it is released. Pasting in a 
label track and audio track won't affect the following labels in 
1.3.13 unless Sync-Lock is on, but hopefully that might be
implemented later. 





Gale

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, <gale@...> wrote:

> In 1.3.12, if you cut audio in both the audio track and the label track,
> the following labels will move.
>
> You can paste both audio and label if you select in both the audio track
> and the label track before you paste. To do that, click in the waveform
> where you want to paste, hold down SHIFT then down arrow (which
> selects in the label track as well). Now you can paste both label and
> audio.
>
> However this will not move the following labels along. If you want
> to move the labels along with paste you will have to use the "Nightly
> Build" (1.3.13 alpha):.....................
>

Ah.  OK.  Thanks, Tony
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:47:09 -0700
Steve Kelem <steve@...> wrote:
> I checked out the subversion audacity-read-only:
> svn checkout http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/branches/AUDACITY_1_2/ audacity-read-only
> 
> When I run configure, I get:
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... (cached) o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... (cached) /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... (cached) /bin/grep -E
> checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
> checking for g++... (cached) g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... (cached) g++ -E
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
> checking for string.h... (cached) yes
> checking for memory.h... (cached) yes
> checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
> checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
> checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking sndfile.h usability... no
> checking sndfile.h presence... no
> checking for sndfile.h... no
> checking for lib-src/libmad/frame.h... no
> checking for lib-src/libvorbis/include/vorbis/vorbisenc.h... no
> checking for lib-src/libid3tag/frame.h... no
> checking for lib-src/libsamplerate/src/samplerate.h... no
> checking for lib-src/libresample/include/libresample.h... no
> checking for lib-src/soundtouch/include/SoundTouch.h... no
> checking mad.h usability... no
> checking mad.h presence... no
> checking for mad.h... no
> checking vorbis/vorbisenc.h usability... yes
> checking vorbis/vorbisenc.h presence... yes
> checking for vorbis/vorbisenc.h... yes
> checking id3tag.h usability... no
> checking id3tag.h presence... no
> checking for id3tag.h... no
> checking soundtouch/SoundTouch.h usability... no
> checking soundtouch/SoundTouch.h presence... no
> checking for soundtouch/SoundTouch.h... no
> checking FLAC/all.h usability... no
> checking FLAC/all.h presence... no
> checking for FLAC/all.h... no
> --- Configuring libsndfile
> checking for vorbis_bitrate_addblock in -lvorbisfile... no
> configure: error: *** Ogg Vorbis libraries not found or they are too old.
> (>= 1.0-rc3 required). Run configure --without-vorbis to disable it.
> 
> However, vorbis is installed:
> % rpm -qa | grep vorbis
> vorbisgain-0.36-5.fc12.x86_64
> vorbis-tools-1.2.0-8.fc13.x86_64
> libvorbis-1.3.1-1.fc13.x86_64
> libvorbis-1.3.1-1.fc13.i686
> libvorbis-devel-1.3.1-1.fc13.i686
> libvorbis-devel-1.3.1-1.fc13.x86_64
> 
> Any idea what's wrong?

Not really, on the face of it, other than it could a problem in the Audacity
configure script or a Fedora pkg-config problem.  

We are no longer developing the Audacity 1.2 line because the 1.3 Beta 
line is being bug-fixed prior to eventual release as a 2.0 version to replace 
1.2. Therefore building Audacity 1.2 is now effectively unsupported and 
hasn't been tested on a modern distribution for some time.

I would suggest instead you checkout the 1.3.12 tarball:
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-minsrc-1.3.12-beta.tar.bz2

or SVN HEAD:
svn checkout http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/ audacity-read-only

and report any problems compiling that to the "Compiling Audacity"
board on the Forum:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=19





Gale

Increasing the sample rate will not improve the sound quality of something
that has already been recorded. Also, any damage done to the sound through
MP3 encoding can not be undone. For best quality you need to make the
original recordings as high quality WAV files, and keep everything as
uncompressed audio up to the point of exporting the finished track.
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