Audacity Forum

I opened it, there were 3 seconds and the noise level was clear. They do automate some of those tests. Magnify and look at the extreme start of the sound. It's not unusual to hide some tiny ticks, peaks or pops up there that are hard to see if you're looking at the whole chapter. They make it seem ...

We have to divine an enormous amount of information from your initial posting, so sometimes we miss the boat a bit. It's like speed dating over multiple timezones. two other ones were rejected. They usually tell you what they found wrong and suggest possible remedies. Did they this time? The suite o...

If you think about it, record a 20 second mono test and post it. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html It should be your normal presentation style with no effects or corrections . Words don't matter—read the cereal box—and don't make it too short. There are some sound proble...

There's no tool to help you if you can't read aloud.

There's a posting from a successful reader who describes how she changes her presentation slightly to make it easier to follow each character.

Yet another reason I will never read for audiobooks.

Koz

The whole last half of that document is what happens when you fail noise, a very common problem for home production. ACX has automated testing for the specifications we're adjusting, but the second half is their Human Quality Control. You have to sound natural with reasonable background noises. No c...

You can try Audiobook Mastering version 4. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 It boils down to three Audacity effects tools and a custom measuring tool. If you're work is relatively quiet, it's one pass through the three tools and out the door. Please don't ad-lib or scramb...

If you have your AUP Project Manager File and your _DATA folder full of little AU files in the same place or folder, you should be able to double click the AUP file and Audacity should open with complaints asking what it should do about the missing pieces. Try "replace them with silence." ...

That is one heck of a Huge Bug. I would imagine almost all users use the "Save Project As" function because they want to preserve the original recording. That's not the bug. Save Project As sets you up to save the Project under a different name . Save Project sets you up for overwriting t...

Did you just start using Skype or playing Games? Both of those can throw you over the horsepower limit. Skype in particular likes to take over the machine. Stop everything completely, don't leave them napping.

Koz

Over on the video forums there is a sure sign of drives filling up: "It's been working for years and today, for no apparent reason, it's acting funny." Production files build up quicker than you think. How big are the drives and how full are they? All connected drives whether they're being...