Audacity Forum

im sure this was how i used to do it years ago. Perfectly correct. Years ago, some laptops had stereo recording connections. Not any more. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyUCA202Lenovo-650.jpg That's a Behringer UCA-202. It's a good stereo USB interface device. I have two. It works both...

I would love to know what is causing this. We would love to know how you're recording the show. Which microphone and how is it connected? Include model numbers. We live on fine details. Which computer and which three-number Audacity? You might be able to "patch" your existing recordings w...

If you put two or more disks in a document mailer, you'll want to put each disk in its own light, transparent-window CD envelope to keep them from scratching each other to death. You could get away with putting a cut-down sheet of printer paper between each disk.

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If they're going out in the mail, the USPS can supply 6" x 10" Photo Document Mailers which are nearly perfect. They're self-sealing stiff cardboard without being heavy. They're not square which can cause the Post Office some trouble. They will go First Class Mail for a Global Forever stam...

There are labeling tricks, too. The optical surface of a disk is recessed and protected and will stand a remarkable amount of abuse before the music dies. Not so the label side. The Music is Right Under the label and if you scratch the label you can destroy the disk. Unlike vinyl, a CD starts from t...

flash drive A flash drive is a convenient hard drive. It has to mount on or connect to a computer to work, not a music player. After you mount the drive, the computer has to pull the WAV file off and play it in its own music software. A flash drive suddenly needs an operating system, file managemen...

Make sure you are recording your mixer or mixer connection only and not Stereo-Mix or What-U-Hear or any of those other services people use to record Internet music. Another name for those services is "everything playing on the computer." That can include your microphone. How did you conne...

The Nyquist rate I learned was 2.6, not 2.0. That gives you a close-to-perfect recoverable audio frequency of 17.9KHz, not 22KHz. The areas above 2.6 get there by tricks and noise, not accuracy. Video uses 48000 which at 18.5KHz is closer to the ideal. I strongly suspect this is why recording studio...

That's not to say you can't have burning problems. Companies have stopped producing top quality blank CDs and it's not unusual for "Burn At Maximum Speed" to fail. Nobody is expecting X64 or X32 to work reliably. I prepare my disks at X8 and that seems to work for me. DO Not make the compu...

What WAV do I export from Audacity that will allow up to 80 minutes of tracks on a disk You don't. It may say 80 minutes on the side of the box, but you never get that in practice. The official maximum is the 74 minutes it says in the standard. It usually settles around 78 or so. In the case of a p...