Audacity Forum

The thing which does the most to cut down the editing time is recording well the first time. But that's not the only thing that causes problems. Your threshold of excellence changes as you edit. "You know, now that I listen to it critically, I could probably tighten up that paragraph a little....

Dueling posts. I need to go back and read through that.

Koz

So creating an on-line show is taken care of by the service. Both sides, music, etc, etc, whatever it is, it is. It's the higher quality local mix that causes problems. Assuming you don't take any shortcuts, the whole high quality show minus the co-host is available from the sound mixer, right? So t...

atr 2100 I'm not worried about that [!]. you seem to have a remarkably good grip on the sound. I plan to connect with the cohost through one of the online streaming software solutions which already exists. Yes. That helps. We tell people constantly, we have to build your world in our imaginations, ...

burn an Audio CD not a Data CD It's been my experience if you cross those by accident, the Music CD player will not recognize the disk at all, not play "silent tracks." But I guess that is possible. You can tell if you're burning the right disk by the software asking you for the gap betwe...

It's blank. Sometimes Audacity will do that if you close the computer before it's done saving the show. Audacity writes the AUP file last, so if you close the lid a bit too soon, the AUP file may not get written. Putting the show together without that file can be challenging. See if there's anything...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... ndows.html

Koz

I edited the recording and saved the audio file. We hang on every word you post, so accuracy is good. Did you actually "save" an audio file? Audacity will not save an audio file. To get an audio file that Windows Media can use for a CD requires Audacity File > Export. Did I hit it? I can ...

I have deleted most of my old recordings and temporary files.

Deleted them from your work drive? I hope you moved them off to another drive rather than flushing them.

Koz

I now have 261.5 GB of available space. Do you remember what you had before you started deleting? How long are the podcasts? I recorded in Mono and in lower quality. What was the original quality and what quality did you end using? How many shows do you have under your belt (approximately). Are the...