Audacity Forum

Audacity needs FFMPEG to work.

Audacity works just fine without it. What Audacity will not do is open advanced compression format files or export them.

If you need to make an MP3, you also need to install the Lame software. Audacity will open an MP3 without it, but won't make a new one.

Koz

Zip or the disk image (dmg)?
Did you get it from here?
http://lame.buanzo.org/#lameosxdl

When I do that, I get a package (pkg) that my Mac makes me authorize before installing it. You never see the actual Dynamic Library. This is an installer that's supposed to take care of all that for you.

Koz

OK, so you saved an Audacity Project and it created MyShow.aup (project manager) and MyShow_data folder (with all the sounds and snippets). Did it open before you left school? Audacity isn't always completely comfortable with network drives. The manager file and the data folder should have exactly t...

I'm sorry we couldn't get you further along faster. You had the bad luck to follow a posting where someone told us he had accepted an ACX job and wanted to know where to start. I think that was the first time I told someone to find a studio for the first one or two books and then start working at ho...

Oh. Classic "dropout" is when you're missing one note in the middle of a successful song. That's what threw me. If I am recording an album That's not streaming audio. Streaming is when you're recording YouTube or a podcast. Does it happen with both? So you're recording right along and the ...

Perhaps this is due to an update? Audacity doesn't do updates in the background. If you didn't perform an update, then no. Do you leave Skype running in the background? Skype has a nasty habit of hogging sound services. You did restart the computer at least once, right? When was the last time you d...

All of the audio or just portions, dropouts like in the title? If you have an aggressive virus protection software, it can prevent Audacity from writing to the drive, basically whenever it feels like it. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html http:...

The best way is to look for someone offering a karaoke version of the song. The worst way is to try to take the vocals out yourself. Audacity has Effect > Vocal Removal. It doesn't actually know what a voice is. All it does is remove the left-right center of a stereo show where the vocal usually is....

If they do manage to set you up by yourself, by all means post back and tell us how they did it. I know this seems like a help desk, but it really is a forum, users helping each other. Everybody runs into the same technical slog. "ACX rejected my posting....." You are far ahead of the game...

I can hear it fine, although I would have sent WAV files instead of QuickTime 3GP Video Files. We can't easily analyze those. like fast talkung. It's not fast talking. I think it's multiple people or voices. I think the company is right. You are in a high intensity communications radio field. It's n...