Audacity Forum

Audacity will only stay in the dock only until I reboot the machine, Should we be worried that you are restarting the machine all the time? Most Mac users have to be poked repeatedly with a stick to stop what they're doing long enough to restart, sometimes over many months. When you reinstalled Aud...

I'm pretty sure there is no Auto Save. The very last thing you need on a borderline powered machine is for it to start managing a save cycle in the middle of a recording—or worse, an overdubbing session.

Koz

The sampling rate is listed in the lower-left of the Audacity window. It doesn't affect the volume. Two standard sample rates are 11025 and 16000. Not 14000.

Set it with Preferences > Quality: Sampling

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Koz

I do voice-under. My non-theatrical monotone voice puts people to sleep. To be really effective I'll tell you how the inside of your microphone works. "..using the Farkward Effect, air pressure variation changes the electrical charge..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But I do OK recording other people...

I guess it's good to ask if you know why the show failed? I believe the AUP file is written last, so it's the most likely to go if there is a timing or writing error.

The up side is you can publish your rescue process if it works better than ours. You'll be a hero.

Koz

The files are randomly named?? In older Audacity versions, they were. I remember when they did that random thing they were solving a very real production problem whose description escapes me. It's been plaguing performers ever since. Sorry, just frustrated... I can make it worse. The developer dadd...

voice over work And just to bring us closer; everybody uses this wrong. Is somebody going to send you a video with natural sound and you're going to produce "Voice-Over" narration? "The antarctic penguin sees a potential mate and courts her with fish from the frigid ocean waters and ...

What he said. Most systems “know” what mono is and automatically send your voice to both Left and Right speakers. ACX AudioBooks urges strongly (but does not require) you to submit in Mono. So you’re fine where you are. You just have an extra step or two in your production. When you get your first t...

Why wouldn't I want to use projects? Because of this exact problem. If anything goes wrong, you have no show even though it looks like you do. If you have multiple edited tracks one above the other, you have no choice but to use a Project. If I knew the proper XML format, I could probably reconstru...

Overload Distortion and DC Offset are different. You can have DC Offset all day long and the sound will be perfect except for a tiny volume restriction, and noting that production editing a DC Offset track will be a nightmare. Can you get a screen grab and post it here on the forum? I think we need ...