Audacity Forum

It's not easier to save copies of my WAVs because they weren't saved in the process of making the CDs. I think you guys are either too pessimistic of the longevity of CDrs or other people are lying through the teeth about the matter. If I am careful and store them in my 5 CD-bags, keep them out of s...

When you decide to make new CD of the work, the original, perfect quality WAV files should still available. When the CD starts skipping is not a good time to decide to rescue it and make a new one. Koz I still have the cassettes I used so I guess I could make new files in Audacity and burn new CDs ...

After researching the longevity of CDs I have concluded certain things. The expected lifespan in normal cases seems to be 10 years if they're preserved correctly and not exposed to extreme temperature or sunlight. Some say 3 months or something in rare cases I can't describe or doesn't know anything...

It struck me as somewhat unnecessary to make such comments. To me the stereo is the focus point for music and you may call me unfashionable or whatever you want. On that stereo I have a CD-player, even a record player (Rega P3-24) and with some good sounding speakers (Audio tronic CM3) I have no con...

This is a follow up just to get across that I actually have been using Audacity to the point where I've gotten my chosen cassettes over to CDs. In other words, I'm very satisfied with Audacity and the initial help I got here. Haven't done an exact count of it but it is probably about 270 records I c...

It's probably the result of over-aggressive noise reduction. If you still have the original non-noise-reduced files, try again with a lower setting. I usually go for 9 dB - any more and you are inviting the kind of effect you've noticed. Alternatively, it could be tape "stiction" - squeaky tape, bu...

I know now that I didn't exactly know how noise reduction worked but I think I know now. On a CD I burned the noise is reduced quite subtantially but there's a slight squeking sound on the bakground of that CD. On silent portions it can be heard, like a wheel squeking in the background. Does anyone ...

I've got it to work now. However I think there's some work to do everytime with splitting tracks. I was hoping that the function "Silcence finder" could detect where there is a break and automatically managage the splitting up into tracks.

Now I've been able to record from a cassette to a CD. Not totally satisfying, because I think it was a bit too loud so the sound was hopefully not the best of what it could be. I assume it's just a matter of trying and testing or is there levels which are preferably? I managed to use some functions ...

Thank you sir. " Make sure you have your line input selected for input/recording in both the System Preferences Sound panel and in Audacity > Preferences, Devices section." It seemed to be it, right away thanks for the help, I appreciate it. What do you recommend I use 1.3.12 (Beta), or Audacity 1.2...