Audacity Forum

the project has two tracks -- the two sides of the conversation, recorded from Skype. Two mono tracks? Skype is notoriously difficult to record. Pamela? I thought the settings in Pamela were to produce a stereo show with you on one side the the guest on the other. This lends itself to backing up as...

- a faulty SSD drive that started to corrupt files Talk some more about that. How did you know it was failing? System drive? Internal? Did you work around it or replace the drive and put the OS on again? Replace the drive and Time Machine your system on again? Do they follow each other? That is, yo...

CoolEdit was Windows only.
I got mine when it first came out on CompuServe (gasp).

Koz

audacity looked like it was struggling a little bit (the monitor levels didn't look like they were refreshing very often and the wave form wasn't populating in the window as it normally does). So the machine wasn't keeping up with real time. It was recording slow. I have an Activity Monitor/System ...

If you are the performer, this is the reason people multi-track record. You pick the guitar track, reduce the volume and make a new mix. We can't take a mix apart into individual instruments. We can't make a mix into a multi-track. Audacity has Overdubbing where you can record all your instruments o...

So if the guitar is part of a close, multi-instrument mix, the short answer is no.

Koz

a song (mp3)? Since the goal is to improve the song, note that MP3 compression quality is going to be worse if you export the song as another, similar size MP3. You can get around this by exporting a really high quality (large) MP3, or export the corrected song as WAV. MP3 tiny sound files aren't &...

Can you buy Audition? Adobe has found it desirable to rent licenses to their on-line-only product. That's what Audition CC is. Creative Cloud.

Koz

Is that a 78? Do you have a 78 stylus? 78 records have a wider groove than 33 or 45. If you mismatch the stylus, the point spends its time picking up garbage from the bottom of the groove instead of carefully riding on the sides as intended. Stylus for 78 RPM records The groove of a 78 RPM record is...

Control-Click the file > Get INFO. One of the INFO options (scroll down) is permanent "Open With."

I'm not sure how to deal with iTunes. The display for iTunes isn't the real file. It's a pointer to the file.

Koz