Audacity Forum

You still should not get the Spinning BeachBall of Death. That happens when OS-X allocates time for a task and the task takes way longer than expected. How Long are the shows? You never actually said you installed Audacity — dragged the Audacity folder to /Applications, or alternatively, did you get...

I'd like to see an additional button to the gain slider that automatically adjusts the slider to 0 dB output. Before we ride off in all directions, a far simpler control "Normalize Show" or "Amplify Show." With the described new tool above, we will be doing a land-office busines...

While I can play each one individually in iTunes, I am totally stuck on HOW to create a Playlist, as try as I may, I cannot seem to get my WAV files over to iTunes in any manner. Take a breath. You just told me you could play your songs in iTunes but you can't move the files to iTunes. Which is it?...

I would be concerned about a shock hazard. There's no gentle audio or entertainment content reason that should be happening, but I can dig up grounding issues that can cause very serious disruptions. Since you do not have a studio or broadcast system, it means that the cable shields are all connecte...

The Audacity tool for that is Effect > Vocal Removal. There's a long list of problems you can have with the music that can cause the tool to fail. If you have a mono version of the song instead of stereo, Vocal Removal won't work at all. There is one musical problem you can have. The bass and drums ...

There is no simple way to clear up a voice. Sometimes you can get Equalization > Telephone preset to help a little.
Koz

Transport > Timer Record
You can also use Transport > Sound Activated Recording to avoid recording continuously with no sound.
Koz

Which OS have you really got. Yosemite started with 10.10.x Audacity doesn't support Yosemite yet. However, it should't be that bad. Are you trying to run Audacity from inside the dmg? You have to actually install Audacity for it to work. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=75660 ...

You join the ocean of people wanting Audacity to: "Make my voice sound like something else." There are no Audacity tools to do that. Audacity doesn't "know" what a voice is. It just knows pitches and tones over time. Trouble is, they change from word to word and as you read, perf...

The temp file is saved in my C:, which is where I have (I assume) full read/write access. It's not that simple. Windows carves out a portion of the drive for the sensitive system and security files. If you go down the directory pathways long enough, you'll start to find directories that have very r...