Audacity Forum

Hi Bill,

Good question, however there is no 16 bit option for the headphones in Audio/Midi. In addition, Audacity Preferences > Quality > Rate is set to "32 bit float".

Thanks Koz, but I've checked all these settings and the same problem persists. I can listen to iTunes on my bluetooth headphones, but not Audacity. Audacity plays back fine through my USB DAC. Here is the Sound Pref. window: sound preferences.jpg the audio/midi window: audio midi.jpg and the Audacit...

I'm running Audacity 1.3.12, on a MAC Mini with OS 10.6.5. My bluetooth headphones are connected, and I can hear iTunes. I selected my headphones as the playback device in Audacity preferences. When I try to play a file from Audacity, I get a message that says I should check the output device settin...

That's probably not an AIFF file you got from RecorderPro.... -- Bill Brilliant Bill! Absolutely right, even though the Recorder Pro app appears to give the user the choice of encoding an aiff or caf file, all the files are compressed with IMA 4:1. This solves my problem. By the way, if you have an...

UPDATE: After Normalizing the file, I can now see that the wave form keeps repeating, ad infinitum . As I say, this same file plays OK in iTunes. So, when the file was imported into Audacity could just the first few seconds have been imported and multiplied thousands of times?! This doesn't make sen...

I used Recorder Pro (Dava Consulting; see the iTunes App store) to record an aiff file (bit rate 187 kbps; sample rate 44.1 kHz) on my iTouch (most recent gen). I downloaded the file to my Mac (OS 10.6.1), and it plays without a problem in iTunes (9). However, when I load the file into Audacity (eit...