Audacity Forum

I'm assuming you're thinking of the "pops" that tend to occur with a clean select and cut, right? I get around this by zooming in to the cut ends and selecting the last/first couple of frames. I then fade them in/out. That tends to do the trick, though sometimes you'll need to fade more than a coupl...

You wouldn't. That's why a wav file is the way to go. MP3 is just a compression format for waveform files. It'd be best to skip the stripping lossy compression does and stick with uncompressed audio.

As an aside, iTunes can easily be set to rip and encode only into MP3.

This might make for a good feature request, eh? Live filter layers/channels for each track!

when burning a CD from MP3s, the burning application coverts them to wav files first... so yeah, wav is the way to go.

Is there a draft in here? :roll: I'm an XP user, no doubt. I was a Windows 98 SE user before that. I was extremely hesitant to move away from 98 SE simply because I knew it so well. The time came for a new system and XP was preinstalled. What can I say? In between these, I've loved playing with a fe...

I think this is an obscure bug somewhere deep in Audacity's code.
Having 768MiB ( 3/4GiB) of RAM should be sufficient, but you could look at CPU as well... perhaps?

I can imagine low system resources stuttering and "skipping" a recording, but slowing down is another story.

Assuming you have them in the MP3 format, this should be really simple. Find the file on your hard disk, open it with Audacity, select the whole track and let the Amplify plugin do its thing. The default number Amplify provides should be a safe max.

There are a couple good DIY pop filter projects at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ihorner/120282870/in/[email protected] and http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/08/how_to_make_you_1.html you could check out. I'm not sure how much these are commercially, but this is an extremely inexpensive project. ...

I'm not sure if this is related, but I had a slow playback issue with a track recorded in Kristal once. I recorded the track in Kristal and when I attempted to open the wave file in Audacity, despite the sample rates matching up, the playback was as if I had slowed it down. This last for about a wee...