Audacity Forum

That worked great! Thanks. Can you answer a related issue with the Windows mixer? The misc sliders are all tied to the Speaker volume. Anything you increase cannot go above the % volume of the Speaker slider, so anything else you increase also increases the speaker volume along with it. As a result,...

v 2.3.0 Win 7-64. On board RealTek audio. Probably a simple resolution. Playing a youtube music video, I open Audacity and start monitoring to possibly record. At a lower the db level it is fine but if trying to get the peaks to near 0db, I get major feedback (as if the computer's audio system has t...

Hi guys, I did my recording this week and it went exactly as you had predicted- 630Mb, fit beautifully on a single CD-r. I also found out that my sound card's software EQ affects the input (as well as the output) so I should have diasabled the card's audio panel while recording. In reality, I left i...

I just recorded 5 minutes and exported that as a WAV... 50Mb! If it is a fair test... that would exptrapolate to 600Mb for 1 hour! What about those other settings in the WAV Quality window like dithering settings and rate converters? Regarding FLAC, it looks like you have to have the codec installed...

Without intending to parade my ignorance, what would I do with a FLAC file after I have it? Since it is a codec, will the file still be a WAV so it has universal playability?

Also, FLAC is not listed as an Export option. Do I have to download, install and make Audiacity aware of it? Lar

A test it will be!!

BTW, are there progs that compress without losing quality? I remember when I used to do video editing, there were progs like DVD Shrink that would reduce file sizes without sacrificing quality.

Hope you feel better, thanks for your insights.

Isn't a 1 hour WAV going to be in the multiple Gb range? (especially if an MP3/80 is 700mb?)

I will be recording a 1 hour long stereo radio broadcast and I need to fit it onto one CD-r. My newbie calcs tell me that I would have to record it at MP3/80 for it to fit. I would, however, like to maintain as high of a sound quality as possible. 80 bit sounds pretty low-fi. Any ideas? Are there af...