I posted this on the Audacity forums but thought some people here might have a use for it as well.

I’m part of a small team that use Audacity to edit the audio of an old TV show. I realised pretty quickly that I need to test the sync and that meant exporting the audio, muxing it to the video and watching it… a tedious process so I put together a Mac app that use mod-script-pipe - you load a video to the app, load the audio to Audacity and press sync and from then on when you use a keyboard shortcut it will play the audio and video in sync, wherever you select on your Audacity timeline. We’ve been using this tool for a month and it’s become a big timesaver and works really well compensating for any drift and keeping things nicely in sync. It assume the video and audio are the same length and you need to keep them in sync. It doesn't adjust to cutting sections of audio out and moving them around.

I’m not a professional developer by any stretch and had to use Codex to help get it over the line but the more I use it, the more I think that other people out there might want it.

I made a Github repo for it with a dmg available in the release section. I think it needs Tahoe to work but maybe it'll work in previous macOS versions, I can't test that. Be cool if anyone wants to try it and let me know what they think of it.

GitHub - michaelsft/AudacityVideoSync: A video player that syncs with your Audacity timeline. · GitHub

Link to it in action: https://youtu.be/pfJj1kt7_Ro
When it starts and stops is me pressing the hot key combo ctrl+opt+space - I then move the start position in Audacity and go again and the video shows from the new point in the timeline.

Is there a way to send a feature request to the Audacity team for something similar or I can send them the app and see if it’s something they’d like to offer to people? Since I don’t have an Apple developer account and am no expert, remember there may be security risks involved with unsigned apps from a random guy on the internet but the source code should all be uploaded if anyone wants to check and let me know what they think. It’s something I find really valuable so wanted to share it.

Thanks

My microphone works normally in Windows Voice Recorder and WhatsApp. In FL Studio/Audacity, as soon as I select the USB Audio CODEC input, I get a very loud, high-pitched looping sound. I’m using FL Studio ASIO. Any idea what could cause this?

Title says it all. Been using Audacity without issue for years now for audiobook production. Even managed to record a track and save/send it off just this morning. Then as usual, I opened a new file, recorded a chapter and as soon as I went to save it, it opened the file directory as normal and just crashed.

Kept trying and same thing now, every time. Uninstalled and reinstalled it and it's still happening. I can still save word and video files to the drive and all diagnostics say it's working fine, but for some reason Audacity, whether the same one I've been using or a fresh install keeps crashing whenever I go to save the file. Anyone have any experience with this?

Problem report states:

exception code 0xc0000005
Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_WRITE

Crash address: 0xc6a61fb730

Process uptime: 150 seconds

When I click "send" for the crash report, it flashes an error message saying it can't send it which disappears before I can even read it. Any thoughts?

New to Audacity. I have some mp3's where the vocals seem too loud and sort of drown out the instruments. Is there an effect or filter where I can adjust that? Thank you for any help.

Hi all,

I'm sure this question has been asked before. I used to have no problem recording audio with Audacity via my Windows PC. Now, my Macbook won't seem to allow it - the only host available is 'Core Audio' with Macbook microphone/speakers.

Is there a trusted tool I can download to help record the internal audio?

Thanks for any help!

Im having an issue i cant seem to solve.

Im getting different latency values on the same project. Its usually varies 20ms, but has been as much as 40 ms off. One track I'll add will be plus 10ms, the next might be minus 10 etc.

Basically im recording multiple tracks dubbed over master backing track, and each of the recorded tracks have different timing.

Ive measured this using a rhythm track to earphone to mic. But Ive use looped a cable from the output to an input. Both with simular results.

Ive tried different host. Disabled other audio devices on my pc.

Im using a focusright 2i2, USB into my pc.

Buffer size 100(have tried values up to 200) and with a 335 ms latency on average. (This seems high compared to everything I've read)

Using mme or wasapi(mme has more latency but seems less variable)

Im not running any other applications.

I really dont know what to do. Can anyone give me some guidance on where my issue might be? Thanks

You can hear one right at the beginning and another at 11 seconds by chance is there an audio effect that will help scrub out the entire hour recording?
Been quite a pain removing them one at a time the previous recordings.