Audacity Forum

That's never happened to me......

Koz

Is this a simple recording, or were you editing, filtering or doing post-production?

Koz

I have no idea what to do and I am getting really frustrated. I have a Sony PCM-M10 digital recorder so I can get away from the computer. (Using a Shure SM58 with it.) I always keep the WAV files it creates. I only ditch them if I feel it's something that I'd rather re-record than retrieve the old ...

I tend to record in WAV, edit in AUP and at the end, export a mp3 when it's needed. You said a dangerous word there. There is no AUP sound file format. The AUP file is the xml/text instructions that tell Audacity what to do with all that stuff in the_DATA folder. Too many people mail the AUP file t...

Did you put punctation marks in the filename? Try it once without that.

Try exporting to your Desktop instead of a special folder.

You may have permissions issues:

Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities.
Select your drive and Verify Drive and then Repair Permissions.

Koz

If you're trying the Invert and Add method, you might find Effect > Vocal Remover will work better. It does the same thing and has more tools and adjustments.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocal_remover.html

Koz

I downloaded the plug in to allow audacity to function. That would be the FFMpeg software, yes. Audacity doesn't know about Windows Media without that. when I edit a Media player track the result is that the mandolin is effectively supressed but the other intrument (guitar) is very mushed and disto...

The MP3 thing catches everybody. Never do production in MP3. Production sound is made up of collections of individual tones. This is the sound analysis/Fourier thing. All the tones don't just add up, however, some of them in the normal process of musical sound subtract. MP3 is in the business of del...

Audacity doesn't work reliably over a network. It doesn't understand network negotiation and delays. It's best to run it entirely on one computer.

Koz

Audacity is not a surveillance recorder. The only way I know of to get continuous recording and manage the sound files with Audacity is two computers. Also, there may be some issue with file length. WAV files rarely go longer than 4GB and in some conditions, 2GB. Exporting as MP3 has compression sou...