Audacity Forum

I usually use a different audio editor that I'm more familiar with

Which is?
Koz

Most of the time audition "tapes" consist of your voice and very abbreviated songs -- usually five to ten seconds or less. The idea is to highlight your acting chops. Nobody is interested in three minutes of "Electric Light Orchestra" on a demo submission. Your mileage may vary. ...

I have been a dj on college radio So you drove to the station, sat in a chair in front of a microphone and you or a board op mixed your voice with the music, right? The part of this that most people ignore is that you're probably sitting in a quiet, sound-proofed room even if it may not look like y...

Did you used to have Audacity 1.2.6? Open Audacity and Help > About. Which version is it?

Koz

What kind of microphone? Doing multi-point sound channel management on one computer can be insanely complicated. If you have a USB microphone, I think you may need to be in the Windows Control Panels to change the microphone volume without changing anything else. Some microphones let you switch the ...

If you have a real Audio CD, the first step is to "rip" the CD into sound files. Audio CDs do not have standard sound files. After you do that, you'll need to import all the songs into Audacity. They will arrive one above the other and try to play at once. Copy and Paste song 2 behind song...

I've been known to use a small mixer. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/UniversalPodcast-I.jpg Ignore the computer on the right. The left computer is playing music into the mixer from whatever app I choose, currently iTunes. The Microphone (headset type, on the left) is plugged into channel one of ...

I was going to say I just read through that again. Your greatly improved one is not the one that comes with stock Audacity. Koz

There are a lot of advantages to a USB microphone. It's supremely convenient and there can be little or no computer noise if you have a laptop. The whole thing folds up into a little pouch in the back of the sock drawer. There is a USB microphone on the list of techniques to do a perfect overdub. Pr...

I wouldn't call my tool "stupid".

I didn't. The legacy one was. Koz