Audacity Forum

I forced the Operating System (OS-X) to give me INFO and I forced VLC Media Player to open it and give me info.
Illustrations.
This is a store-bought Audio CD
Koz

Are you sure this is an MP3 file? I assume this MP3 plays OK in Windows Media Player? I'm betting it's not. You can tell Windows to stop hiding file extensions.. Hidden File Extensions - Windows -- Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > [ ] Hide Extensions for Known File Types (desel...

A Project will only open as a show if the _data folder and the .aup file are in the same location or folder. Try pulling them both onto your desktop.

Koz

I don't think it's a poor quality recording. What do you think is wrong with it?
Koz

I think I see the problem. The blue waves on the Audacity timeline represent the back and forth motion of the air around your ears. If the air changes direction between twenty times a second and twenty thousand times a second we hear that as sound. Microphones change that air motion into electrical ...

Details are good. Audacity is not a vast corporation and the group is trying to support three different operating systems. If you uncover a serious problem it's good for us to know about it. Yosemite caused a number of problems.

Also, this is a forum, not a help desk.

Koz

Then they may be data disks. An Audio CD doesn't offer its music as standard WAV files. In order to get as much music on the disk when the audio system was designed, much of the normal file structure and data management was simply left out. The two types of disks are very different, but most compute...

Does your system support 48000 sample frequency in addition to 44100? That's the video standard and it goes a bit higher up. Koz

Plug the Cassette Player in before you start Audacity. You can also restart Audacity to find the player or Transport > Rescan.

Koz

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Koz