Audacity Forum

This is a sound test I shot using an Olympus WS-823 recorder. Nobody said you needed two computers.
Koz

There is an obsessive/paranoid solution. The radio broadcast was double recorded. That's why there are two microphones visible in the picture.
Koz

I'm on an SSD macbook pro. As am I. No network connection, though. This is an aggressively stand-alone machine. There's no good way out of this I can see. My bad recording is dated Feb 2014 and hasn't happened since. It occurred in my dining room on a wooden table in a comfortable, normal, well lig...

Not exactly a pleasant or efficient workflow. It's a common complaint, yes. Audacity is not a WAV editor. It's a sound editor and it will not Save an audio file. It saves Projects. Once you get a Project to sound as you want, then you Export an audio file. So no, it doesn't lend itself to automatio...

While you had the work in Audacity, it should look roughly like this: http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/NormalPlayback-650.jpg From four seconds on to the right is a normal volume show, roughly 50% up and down on the blue waves and -6 peaks on the bouncing sound meter. You have to pay attention...

Programmers have "moon phase errors" where something bad happens every 28 days. This is a locust phase error. Every 5 years.

I've never heard of a USB MicPre and analog microphone exhibiting this noise. The feature of providing 48v to a condenser microphone means the MicPre has power processing and that seems to be the solution. I have a Behringer UM2 MicPre and C1 microphone under test. They may have other shortcomings, ...

The forum actively covers nine time zones. I'm at the western edge and I'm going to bed.
Koz

We should wait for a real Windows elf to straighten this out.

Koz

While it's in VLC, right-click the file > Get Info (attached). My test is 2 min exactly and it's 21MB. 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. As an experiment, do what I did: Restart Audacity. Generate > Noise: Pink, 2 min > OK. Duplicate (Control-D on your machine?) Track Drop-Down menu > Make Stereo Track. File >...