Audacity Forum

You can put a 3 hour show onto one Data CD as an MP3 or other compressed format. A Data CD is a flat, shiny hard drive. What you can't do is put 3 hours onto one Audio CD whose limit is 78 minutes (or so). If you're sure the audience is all going to play the show on a computer, that's the way to go....

Audacity doesn't really edit MP3. It converts to its own internal format and then converts back out to MP3 at the other end. When it does that, the compression sound damage goes up. If all you're going to do is simple chopping and editing, you can get higher quality sound with one of the pure MP3 ed...

If you can't point to the actual posted on-line files, post some work that acts the same in an "unpublished" portion of your web site and tell us what the address is. Or Drop-Box or any other way to get the work to us. The forum will only allow super short clips and may not be useful for t...

Pretty much why we usually want to know what the goal is before responding to questions about how to make the most perfect recording on earth . The other group that has problems is scientists. Audacity sacrifices very slight data perfection in order to sound better. This drives the data perfectionis...

Where are the on-line files?
Koz

Oh yes, my DropBox is full ;-(

We can't fix that.
Koz

The restriction is not likely to be the file format. Audacity doesn't currently support Yosemite (OS-X 10.10). But to answer you specifically, you would be recording in high quality format and converting to your file format afterward. The reason you would do that is mistakes. If you tried editing or...

Yes only because Audacity edits internally at 32-bit floating, not plain 16-bit. It does this because some of the tools and filters cause an accidental overload condition that in 16-bit would destroy your show. In 32-bit, it's a very minor inconvenience. It kills scientists that the input file and t...

What's the real job? "I need to filter my garage file so it sounds like the studio?" "I need to make me sound like an announcer?"

Koz

Post some of the show here. You can post five seconds in stereo WAV, ten seconds of mono WAV, or many seconds of MP3. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72887 Don't get too excited. Very few people can take echo and reverb out of a recording. That's what kills people recording po...