Audacity Forum

At least once you have to do what I do and set up the recording volume and conditions in Monitor and then, when the magic time comes, forget to press Record.

Koz

I've googled this for hours And no hits because you have a celebrity problem. No normal person would do what you're doing. Same thing with people posting on the forum for all the others who have the same wacky equipment they do (0), or through some error, their equipment works far better than every...

This came up before under a very slightly different scenario. "I have about a billion tracks in my production all time shifted and managed. How long is my show?"

I don't think there's an easy way to do that, either.

Koz

I left a help note for the senior elves.

Koz

Leaving a show up like that is a pretty bad idea. You may have lucked out on the first one, but computers aren't non-moving and non-changing machines. You may have software that likes to update itself and change the computer a little while it's working. So the computer now isn't quite the same machi...

But don't shut down the machine until we get some other eyes on this.

Koz

Does the timeline still start with 0 (right now) on the left? I'm leery about telling you shortcuts because I really have no idea what happened. I could make it worse.

Koz

I never saved it

but you put the computer to sleep at least once and possibly more?

I don't remember what happens to live cache when you do that. We need to wait for a senior elf.

Koz

This maybe a different problem than you think. When Audacity opens a show, it converts to super-high quality format, to make it easier to do effects and filters. If you have a highly compressed MP3, it might try to expand out to a sound file larger than your machine. People make "pure" MP3...

No. The sound meters represent "now" like the meters on the front of a mixer or other sound processor. The blue waves are recent history. You won't get those until you have history to draw. You may not want to call the papers so fast anyway. The blue waves are theatrical shortcuts and only...