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I have phoned in my radio broadcasts to the radio station Literally phoned them in with a land-line telephone? If you have a quiet, echo-free "studio" already set up, then all you're doing is recording a "podcast." I make that sound so easy. A recent poster generated the longest...

You exported the original work twice and got the same problem on each export........ Um......... That suggests the problem is arriving on one of your sound clips. It's rough to believe that Audacity is making it up. When Audacity makes mistakes, it's more of a fire and brimstone thing. The brute for...

it's wrong that a View Mode change can be undone by undoing something else

That was my opinion. I thought the whole reason for having Waveform dB not appear up with the main tools is that it was sticky.
Koz

No waveform appears, but is the "show" the right length? Do you have bupkiss for three minutes if you started with a three minute show? Open the show in Audacity again and press Control-F for a full show on the timeline and read the time. There are seriously magic reasons to produce a sile...

http://www.phonelosers.org/article/recording_telephone_calls/#typesofrecordingdevices Look at that. They hit all the high points. There is one big problem with that site. They suggest that all these applications and techniques work perfectly and that hasn't been my experience at all. POTS or Plain ...

pick-up coil plugged into a cassette recorder. Grand idea, but those work by sensing the magnetic field around the earphone part of a standard telephone deskset. Nobody said the poster had a real telephone... probably not. The microphone and Skype license work no matter what. The best way by far is...

What happens when you pull the music file back into Audacity?
Koz

There is one note on the microphone. If you only have a cellphone and not another landline, two things will happen: The Near-Far sound balance will be much better since cellphones don't have "sidetone," but the down side is the cellphone RF signal may get into the recording. You need to ju...

I do it with a special purpose microphone. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/olympus_TP7.jpg http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/olympus_TP7Blowup.jpg That's an Olympus TP-7 or TP-8. The TP-7 needs that little extra tiny sound adapter to work. It should plug right into your Mic-In on your Windows ma...

Frying mosquitoes. We're getting to be old friends with this. Typically that happens with a USB microphone and rarely with a line-level device. It's computer digital housekeeping getting into the sound. I'm fairly sure about that because when it happens to me, I can hear my computer shifting gears f...