Audacity Forum

This did work occasionally prior to a few days ago. That's not fuzzy-warm. The inch-tall CD/DVD drives work by having arms, gears and levers that suck the disk in, clamp it top and bottom and start spinning it. The super thin ones for laptops don't work that way. There isn't room. They work by havi...

Are you absolutely sure you have a CD-R? There are other kinds of disks and they're not all compatible.

Koz

So there's two branches. Since the burn process apparently completes, it created a correct, perfect, stable, non-standard disk. Or the burn process created garbage (or nothing) and the burn process monitor failed. That one is my guess. What are you using to burn the disk? Laptop internal? One of my ...

Audacity has "Chains" which is its batch processor. You can assign filters and effects to a Chain, apply it to a pile of files and then come back after lunch and collect the finished files. We do not step on the original files. The corrected files are placed in a separate location. If you ...

So how do you optimize an abomination of a microphone with Audacity? In post production? You don't. Between the overload, clipping distortion and massive noise reduction, there's nothing left to rescue. This is the same request as the people who record a live concert. Between the pounding overload ...

If you're sufficiently obsessive, you will have retained your QT7 License Key, so even if you do deep six the application, you can install it again at no cost.

Koz

Does the CD have the normal number of tracks? Does it step forward through normal songs...but they're silent? The recommended File > Export is WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit. There are other WAV formats and they may not work so well. While the files are in Windows Media or even QuickTime, do they play there...

Audacity for Macs runs on QuickTime Services as does every other video and audio application on Macs. You might want QT in Windows if you export or manage files in one of the odder file formats, but QT7 is an odd duck. That was the last QT version that offered full import/export services as normal. ...

And just because I haven't been a harbinger of doom yet, In the middle of cutting and filtering GrayHair, Audacity "Did Something," exhibited the Spinning Beach Ball of Death (SBBOD) and crashed. Skype was not running (I don't see it in the list of applications), I wasn't doing anything pa...

I think the problem is the balanced (3-wire) connection to the mixer.

The poster hasn't told us he has a mixer.
That's why I asked to describe how the voice is being recorded. You can also get into trouble like this by badly wiring an XLR microphone into a soundcard.

Koz