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Thursday, September 18, 2025

My last project on Audacity

What a weird logo.  Is it supposed to look like an ugly mouth full of yellow fangs?  I mean, sound waves are symmetrical, above and below the line; the tips should be matching each other, not all jagged.  Also, they're usually not a sequence of little triangles.  And why is it red if it's not a mouth?  It really is a beast.

It's a beast I've been using to make audio since I was knee-high to a Klipsch corner horn.  It wasn't the first or second visual sound file editor I ever used. But it's been the warp and woof of my warped woofs for some time.  Heck, it's free!  
 
I've been using less than the latest version for the last few years, because the new one introduced drop-outs into the playback, where the sound disappears for a second.  It was discussed on the internet at the time.   
 
Audacity was very good for clipping sound files and re-arranging the pieces, which is about all we do here (well, and write up about Old TV Guys).  But Audacity and I are at the breakup.  I just can't get it to quit ultra-zooming down to the micro level.  Why would I even want a control that allows me to select and examine an interval << 1 micro-second?  I'm trying to get it to zoom out to the whole file, and every time I click the mouse it gets teenier and teenier.  
 
O-kay, that's about enough of this.  I will finish the project for next Sunday, if I can.  But I can't put up with this crap.