Audacity Forum

I've tried many third party apps. Many free ones? You got lucky. Audacity will typically refuse to work with a second sound program running at the same time. You have two. That makes you a unicorn like Chase who used to run the Reel-Life podcast on one PC with Audacity, Skype and no other special c...

song playing through my sound card Windows 10 may not like your soundcard. Devices under Win10 have to be rated for Win10. Check for updated drivers or Windows 10 support software. It has to say Windows 10. Just "OK for Windows" won't do it. If you get blue waves on the timeline when you ...

Macs work on a version of the Linux operating system. Linux doesn't save work until it needs the space, it steps on the space pretty quickly. Recovery systems for Macs are pretty much a fairy tale.

Koz

Missed a step. OS-X 10.9.5.

Koz

I download the Car Talk podcast, cut it down, compress the volume range with Chris's Compressor to be more like the broadcast volume range and export a mono WAV sound file. Or that's what I used to do. The last two weeks I tried Chris's Compressor, the cut timeline would flash once and nothing would...

Just to bring this full circle, how did you cure the crackling?

Koz

That line that says MME? There's too many blanks in it. Audacity can't find a place to record from or play to. I'm out of my world. I'm not a Windows elf. We should wait for one of them.

Koz

Which Mackie and where are the speakers plugged in?

Koz

Reset the cables. Behind the Mackie and the computer. Just pull them out and push them in again twice.

Koz

How do you select and export the clips? In detail.

Do you use the default WAV (Microsoft) export?

Koz