Audacity Forum

The quick version of this is Audacity does not yet support Yosemite. Many odd things have been reported go wrong with this combination. I've been avoiding the upgrade until this is resolved.

Koz

You may be watching one of the alternate ways to view the timeline. It's not obvious what you're doing while you're doing it, but it makes perfect sense after you mess it up.

Drop down menu to the left (tiny black arrow) > [X] Waveform.

Koz

This is all in 2.0.5, not 2.0.6. I really need to pull the new one down and install it.

Koz

I got it. If you select a position in the middle of an existing track, R will start a fresh, new track, but does it at your selected point in time. You should be careful with this because Audacity will not export the blank before that new track. You have to put Silence in that hole to maintain, for ...

Traditional Audacity gives you Shift-R which will smash a new recording at the end of an existing track. Always the end. You can't move it. I believe (but have not tried this) you can select a position in the middle of an existing track and it will start recording there and cover up everything to th...

See if this is any help:

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/h ... items_os_x

Scroll down to the second technique.

Koz

I don't remember the party line about how to prevent this. While this is happening, Apple (upper left) > Force Quit. Does that list give you any clues what's running? Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items This is the list that starts when the machine starts. It's...

Apparently this changes depending on which Windows you have. Which Windows do you have? I think you can watch the screen when you start up. There may be a way to do this inside Windows, but I don't know what it is. We're getting further and further away from the real problem. Is there somebody in th...

Doing a screen grab is pretty involved on Windows, or at least it used to be. From memory, you have to Print Screen (PrtScn button), open up Windows Paint > New Picture and Paste the screen grab, etc, etc. I didn't see any detailed instructions how to do that. But you may not need to. We more or les...

The Desperation Method is go back and record the narration in an empty church. Combine that with the clean music track. That you can do.

People new to recording and production are horrified that the Big Kids (pros) occasionally have to go back and do a reshoot.

Koz