#Audacity only recording left channel how to#
#Audacity only recording left channel windows#

And even if there is already an understanding about the channel assignments without my having to specify them, what if I wanted to reverse channels or otherwise fool around? Surely I should still be able to identify each track and how I want it treated, and you'd think it's still available in 2.2.1 but just moved to some other menu navigation location.

#Audacity only recording left channel how to#

Unless there is already an understanding about the channel assignments from the opening of the MPG file itself, I don't know how to now designate which of the 6 channels is left or right, so that the down-mix to 2-channel stereo is correct. For some reason they have clearly MOVED the track channel designation mechanism to somewhere else, which I simply cannot find. Imagine my frustration when I embarked on the exact same approach using the newly upgraded 2.2.1 of Audacity. I then click on File -> Export audio., and with FLAC selected I simply navigate to the target folder and name the file as I want, and VOILA! I'm done. Then I simply click on Tracks -> Max and render, and a new downmixed 2-channel stereo result appears. And the remaining two C and SUB they are already defined as 'mono' and so will be downmixed equally into the new 2-channel stereo FLAC audio-only file I am creating. Now I have the left/right channels assigned properly. So for the two left channel tracks I click on 'left channel', and for the two right channel tracks I click on 'right channel'. A dropdown menu appears, with 'mono' currently checked, but with 'left channel' and 'right channel' shown directly below. 1, 2, 5 and 6) just click on the small down-arrow on the right side of the little track label at the top of the information area on the left side of each track. Then for each of the four left or right tracks (i.e. Initially they are all treated simply as six 'mono' tracks by Audacity. With DD5.1 the six tracks are: L, R, C, SUB, LS, RS. Just open the MPG file and all six tracks appear. The goal was simply to convert this 5.1 audio to FLAC, down-mixing the 5.1 channels into 2-channel stereo.

#Audacity only recording left channel windows#

I just wanted to extract the DD5.1 audio (AC3) out of an MPG video clip I had made (using VideoRedo) from a Windows Media Center WTV file recording.

So first I updated to the latest 2.2.1, and then started my simple task. I had previously been using 2.0.6 and noticed today that 2.2.1 was the latest version when I was about to do something I knew perfectly well how to do with 2.0.6.

Will someone please just push me in the right direction. I feel a bit stupid here, because I simply cannot find how to do this with the newest Audacity 2.2.1.