Audacity Forum

Is it possible to record youtube video using audacity?

No.

If you already have a video, Audacity might be able to open the sound part. Even that has its limits. You can edit the sound and produce a stand-alone track, but you need a video editor to put it back in with the picture.

Koz

Maybe we're the only ones hearing smashed loud and dense performance? Are you trying to make up for something wrong in your playback system? Audacity sound files have a top end in the outside world. Louder than that, the distortion goes nuts, and as a respected production engineer once said, "D...

Note you can only use one at a time.

Koz

You can totally have more than one Audacity installed on your machine..
...But I don't know the proper spells for Windows 7. We should wait for a Windows elf.

Koz

Audacity has "Sound Activated Recording."

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording:

De-select that.

Koz

You are going to shine projector lights onto it during the performance, right? Play it in a dark room with white walls.

Koz

is there any way to make this song still produce these beautiful ripples, without the song being heard? I can picture exactly what you want to do, but I can't picture a way of making it silent. You're pumping enough audio energy into a pan of water to move it. That's rough to hide. I guess you can ...

I can easily record in stereo, then convert to mono later. By either splitting, flipping one side over (Effect > Invert) and adding; or deleting one side, right? As you found, you can't simply jam Left and Right together. That kind of microphone is desirable in long cable runs. Done with a good XLR...

You could buy the music in iTunes.

Macs don't have any natural ability to record streaming audio, so you're stuck with third party utilities.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... ack_on_Mac

Post back how it goes. I use SoundFLower which is no longer supported.

Koz

We haven't heard any sound postings from you past the one way at the beginning.

Scroll down from a text entry window > Upload attachment > Browse.

Koz