Audacity Forum

I can't record anything, the Mic has nothing to do with the problem. Every time I hit record, I get this error: If you get that error when you're trying to sing into the microphone, then the Audacity sound settings and the microphone sound settings are different. That was this part of my reply. Aud...

Mine is not checked.
Koz

You may be suffering from App Nap. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/13/#app-nap One of Mavericks' goals is use less power and to that end, it doesn't just turn everything on and go for tea. It tries to predict the energy and activity of each application and only turn on the processor a...

Describe what you're trying to do without using those words.

"I want to remove a short segment of audio in the middle of a larger show," for example.

Koz

And yes, it is 10.9.2, and no, I haven't seen any beachball flashes since I upgraded between .1 and .2.
Koz

It's super easy to get the Soundflower setup wrong. It's completely counterintuitive. "Thinking it Through" is a waste of time. Step through the wiki entry.

Koz

Actually, there was one other Mac item. Do you keep your Dock on the bottom? How many programs do you have running down there? How many programs have that little bright star under them? There was one person at work that never actually closed programs. He just opened them all up and left them all run...

1 Tbyte. Only 200 Gbyte used. That's the hard drive, but how much hardware memory do you have? Apple (upper left) > About This Mac > Second Listing: "Memory." I went a slightly different route. My hard drive is a tiny 250GB, but it's a blistering fast Solid State Drive and I have 8GB of v...

I can "insert" a clip into an existing track and the rest of the show moves forward out of the way. Insert a five second clip into a 50 second show and you're left with a 55 second show.
Koz

How much memory and are your drives internal? How full?
Koz