Audacity Forum

Just to close this .. I finally plugged in a separate CD player and output the audio signal to the Line-In on my Mac Mini. Then played the track I wanted into Audacity and voila, I was able to adjust the recording level, just like it was coming in from a tape machine. "Where there's a will ther...

Thanks!
Sounds easy ... and thats what I needed. If I have any issues, to correct my gaff, I will copy the original and your reply into a new thread, in case it helps others.

Tks again for addressing it though ...
cheers
mike

Thanks guys No problem with the audio system Koz .. all checked out fine. I temporarily solved the recording issue by Exporting to MP3 ,, rather than to WAV. That worked fine for all tracks. And yes, my Audacity is in Applications. If there's really no default, guess I'll have to just watch out wher...

Sorry the screen shot is so big! .... don't know how to make it smaller .., other than using Paintshop on another (PC) computer.
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My system preferences are different from what you gave ... but it does say my name under Administrator and I only have one Drive. But when one restarts Audacity ... where might one find the place to change the default ... I explored but found nothing. Here's my System Preferences screen below. Perha...

Hi (Using Audacity 2.0.6 and OS 10.6.8) I've just realized that Audacity seems to pop up the name 'Audacity' as the default folder option to save new DATA and AUP files for new, dnloaded songs (coming in from tapes my case). IF I remember, I change the 'Audacity' default to 'Desktop', so that I can ...

Thanks for all the tips ... very interesting. I'm fairly conversant with 'Loudness', having studied acoustics some years ago ... all relative ;-) Koz .. I think you mentioned that iTunes does not allow you to Copy and Paste. 'What a bummer' I thought, if that is true ... as once you have a PlayList,...

Hi - using Audacity Version 2.0.6 and MAC O/S 10.6.8 There appears to be a wealth of possibilities under the EFFECTS section .. but it's somewhat overwhelming to figure out how they work. Where do you suggest I start reading - other than here? If I understand correctly, NORMALIZE does not reduce the...

Thanks for the timely explanation ... and yes, excuse my diversions .. I may indeed need to start another thread. Tks!

I think I solved one of my questions .. the continuous noise reduction one. Here's what I did .., pls correct me if I did something incorrect, but thought 'spelling this out' might help another reader. 1) I played back a AUP file and found a one sec. sample of only the background noise, between the ...