Audacity Forum

See if Zencastr has any help and Google your brains out. I know your goal is to have everything work perfectly, but from where we're standing, anything you do to make it worse or change it in any way is also valuable. Also there's the troubleshooting technique of change one thing and see what happen...

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 90#p290890

Did your computer shut down as it asks in the posting?

Koz

There's a trick to this. Audacity leaves a system file that can become orphan and stuck.

Looking.

OS-X 10.7 is pretty old. Lion? If you have to upgrade any parts of your system, you may find nothing supports a system that old.

Koz

OK, so everybody calls into Zencaster and they ship you sound files. Good idea. I have an action item. If you do nothing, Windows tries to apply voice corrections: echo cancellation, noise reduction, etc. It's not being malicious. It naturally assumes you're a salesperson calling into the home offic...

It works fine when he is talking, but when there is silence the drift starts happening again. Now you're into digital magic. We're starting to get posts from people whose digital bitstreams periodically shut down, we assume to save battery, when the system thinks there's an idle time. They get seri...

If by phone you mean a landline telephone, I've had really good luck with an Olympus TP-7 or TP-8. Screen Shot 2017-10-18 at 08.19.59.png You jam one of those in your ear and put the telephone handset on top of it. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/TP7SoundTest1.mp3 http://kozco.com/tech/audacity...

Are you trying to use DropBox or Google Drive as one of your Audacity drives? What happens if you don't do that?

Koz

Clear the Recycle Bin. Chrome seems to be running a lot of processes. What happens if you hard shut down the machine (Shift-Shutdown), wait a bit and Start. Do Not Let anything else start. Do not run Chrome. Does Audacity still have odd waits and gaps? If it does, or the waits and gaps are different...

If you can track the error, there is a desperation method. Have the performer turn everything on an hour ahead and just go make coffee. If it is bad electronic parts, they will have stopped warming up and changing by the time you get to record the show. If Sync is still moving during the production,...

Almost there. Audacity will produce a new separate voice track under the backing track and play them at the same time. You can pick one or the other or both with the MUTE and SOLO controls to the left. If you like what you hear, File > Export and Audacity will smash both tracks into one for Export t...