Audacity Forum

There are methods of capturing the songs as they play , but it's far better if you can do some trick with an application, or right-click or something like that to download the song as one sound file. How did the songs get up there? This is where we start asking odd questions. Didn't you have perfect...

I posted it on my own web page [red face].
Koz

You gotta be doing something wrong. Attached, a simple fade out and fade in graphic. Attached, the resulting sound.

Koz

11025 Hz will make it sound dull.

That's the specification for AM radio.
Koz

If you call the engineer and they say it was 48000, then......full stop. We stand around looking at each other drinking tea. You can try Effect > Change Speed or Effect > Change Pitch, but those tools add distortion. It's much more likely just changing the sampling rate will return the performances ...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

Koz

If you have an analog amplifier that has a phono preamp in it, use that. This device can be switched to straight line-level audio to digitize the amplifier's corrected show.

Koz

A phono preamplifier doesn't just amplify the sound and remove the RIAA distortion. It receives the signal from the cartridge in a very specific way so as not to distort the sound any more than necessary. If you "look into" a Phono Preamp connection you should "see" 47K-ohms resi...

I like to keep one eye on the Audacity blue waves and the bouncing sound meter during the show (attached). The session would not have lasted longer than about 11 seconds if I did that. "Well, shucks. How come I'm not getting a good recording?" Since the problem is happening so quickly, you...

And that's not to say it's impossible. There are software packages which can isolate certain sounds, but most people want entertainment quality music or performances when they get done, and the software won't do that.

Koz