Audacity Forum

Just a note: dates and I think times have been included in file information since we were computing with rocks.

If we can't get Audacity to do it, maybe it would be valuable to get your computer to reveal the ones already there.

Koz

When you make a recording, the red sound meters should jump and the timeline should make blue waves that indicate the sound volume. If you don't get something that looks a lot like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record-650.jpg ...then you are probably making a poor recording. I mak...

USB microphone? Maker? Laptop computer? Fill in the stuff from the pink band above.

Koz

That's a little too fuzzy. USB microphone? What kind? Laptop? Which Windows? Fill in the questions in the pink band above.

Koz

If the program really is "ImgBurn" when you may need an actual Audio CD Authoring Program — like Windows Media.

An "Image" has special meaning in computer land, and yes, if you're trying to make identical duplications of copyrighted works, that's going to be a problem.

Koz

Voice Removal in either the YouTube Invert-Subtract-etc. way or the much simpler Audacity Effect > Vocal Removal method only works when the song is perfect in every way. It has to be very high quality stereo with no left-right special effects, etc. Many of the demo videos on YouTube happen to hit a ...

The Windows microphone thing is a shortcut. You should also be able to get there through Windows Control Panels or whatever they call it now.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... trol-panel

Koz

I think the most often cause of failure is letting a burner go "as fast as you can." That usually means a certain error rate is acceptable in order to gain great speed. I recently took possession of a Mac Mini the latest version of which comes with no optical drive. I bought a stand-alone ...

What features were you looking for when you bought the machine? Complex sound services aren't guaranteed and many computers have no provision for self-recording. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html It's true. Modern machines are only used to con...

If you have a lot of room on your drives, the files may still be there and can be recovered with a File Recovery program. Doesn't Windows have a Step Back program of some sort (I'm not a Windows elf). Once Audacity overwrites a show and you close Audacity, it's history. That's why we recommend stron...