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by kozikowski
Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:33 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Checking For ACX Coimpliance
Replies: 18
Views: 1790

Re: Checking For ACX Coimpliance

Oh, right. There was another problem. The original voice capture was MP3. MP3 is not recommended for original entertainment recording. MP3 is intended for the end product. Make an MP3 for your Personal Music Player to take with you to the beach. MP3 produces stealth problems. MP3 gets its tiny, conv...
by kozikowski
Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:09 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Can't open .aup project
Replies: 12
Views: 641

Re: Can't open .aup project

Matching the direction and duration of the blue waves isn't the only way to solve clicks and pops. There's also DC Offset. This illustration is exaggerated, but it doesn't take a lot of offset like that to create a noise. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/DCOffset.jpg If you zoom in and magnify the...
by kozikowski
Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:44 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Checking For ACX Coimpliance
Replies: 18
Views: 1790

Re: Checking For ACX Coimpliance

Write down how you did the second clip. Open the first clip in Audacity and View > Show Clipping. All those red marks are permanent sound damage from being too loud. So that's that one. Isn't there some sort of volume indicator on the recorder that changes color or flashes or something to indicate w...
by kozikowski
Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:10 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Checking For ACX Coimpliance
Replies: 18
Views: 1790

Re: Checking For ACX Coimpliance

there are several online recording sites that should be able to produce a decent recording that will meet specs. While I'm doing that, can you talk a bit about the above? People routinely go to a lot of effort to avoid sending show sound down the internet pipes because of instability, damage and qu...
by kozikowski
Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:59 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Checking For ACX Coimpliance
Replies: 18
Views: 1790

Re: Checking For ACX Coimpliance

AUP is not a sound format. It's the legacy Audacity project format. That can be handy if you want to save a multitrack production with all the positions and offsets retained, but less reliable for a simple recording. MP3 always adds sound damage. Full stop. So WAV it is. I need to get back home to l...
by kozikowski
Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:21 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recording without laptop microphone [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 247

Re: Recording without laptop microphone

What kind of mixer and how is it connected?

Koz
by kozikowski
Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:18 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Replies: 8
Views: 9890

Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?

Audacity has very basic MIDI file management without actually playing or making MIDI files. I think the best you can do is get your computer MIDI interpreter to play the file and record it in Audacity by setting it to "Record What's Playing On The Computer." This is the same setting you wo...
by kozikowski
Sat Feb 11, 2017 5:49 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Create 20 or 30 sec Audio Samples
Replies: 6
Views: 493

Re: Create 20 or 30 sec Audio Samples

We can't do it en masse, but you may be able to do it one at a time automatically. Audacity has a Batch program called Chains. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/chains_for_batch_processing_and_effects_automation.html Write the steps and Audacity will automatically do the work and place the new clip...
by kozikowski
Fri Feb 10, 2017 10:09 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Saving a wav file
Replies: 1
Views: 158

Re: Saving a wav file

Audacity doesn't Save sound files. You can make a new sound file by File > Export. Audacity doesn't have Clip INFO, either, so you need to know what the technical specifications of the original file were before Audacity to make an identical new one, just louder. Audacity will default to 44100, 16-bi...
by kozikowski
Fri Feb 10, 2017 8:37 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Can't open .aup project
Replies: 12
Views: 641

Re: Can't open .aup project

I personally don't know. All I got is what's in that manual entry. Maybe a senior forum elf will come by.

Koz