Audacity Forum

No. It's not a USB sound mixer. It's an analog mixer with a built-in USB hub. The analog mixer qualifies as one "device" and anything else you plug in to the USB ports qualifies as a separate device. Audacity will only record from one device at a time. You can add Windows software to recor...

True. It's much easier to mess with a video track to match the audio. The video is approximately 34:78 seconds long with the opening credits followed by the video and then the closing credits. The song is 2 minutes 7 seconds. So your video is 93 seconds short. For this show you would be shooting pro...

the waveform in the topmost track was missing.

The topmost track of how many? If you're overdubbing, there's a limit to the number of tracks that Audacity can simultaneously manage. Koz

I can't help asking if you watch the Audacity red recording meters when you capture a show? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg It's pretty common to press record and hope to goodness that Audacity is doing its job. I'm betting you didn't get meters during that session. You said you ...

I don't know. I'm only telling you what the key words mean. Speeded up shows almost always means the computer was recording too slow for some reason. When people complain about a slow show that's more difficult. That's a different error and much more unusual, but speeded up is a common red flag. Wha...

Where to start. The three pins on the bottom of the microphone are: 1 - ground or protective shield, 2 - Voice signal, and 3 - Voice Protection signal (that's the simplified version). If you have a mixing desk that properly uses all three pins, that allows you to place the microphone hundreds of fee...

That microphone is a "broadcast" type with a male XLR3 connector to plug into a mixer or other system. It seems like a very nice microphone. It also has a 9 volt power supply of some sort. What's the possibility of a damaged supply or a bad connection? Is the supply hanging half-way out of...

The Spinning Beach Ball Of Death (SBBOD) happens when the computer allocates resources to the job and the job exceeds those resources. It doesn't mean the machine gave up. It just suddenly realized the magnitude of the job.

Koz

How long is the book recording? Last time I got a book out of the library it was on 9 CDs at about 70 minutes per CD. That's what, ten and a half hours? The speed of processing depends on a lot of things, but it pays well to have a fast computer, a ton of memory and an SSD instead of spinning metal ...

That screams starved for resources. If you do a lot of editing you may be starting to fill up your hard drive. Do you use an external hard drive and is that one filling up? Audacity doesn't like to edit across USB drives and it doesn't like to edit over a network. Close everything. Restart the machi...