Audacity Forum

Got my attention. I collected the versions before the site when dark, and I'm using 1.2.6 as current. If you have it loaded, it will also announce the version in the Effects list. I'm using it for the exact reason it was designed, to listen in the car. Or in the truck in my case (Lori, my lorry). I ...

I think Audacity still comes out of the shrink wrap with teensy sound meters. You should make them very much larger by clicking the right-hand edge and dragging. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg That's approximately what a perfect recording should look like. Again depending on the...

The natural inclination is to set the volume controls at the One Magic Point and then go on and do the show. This is the "masking tape on the sliders" approach. That rarely works for live performances because loudnesses are all over the map. You really have to pay attention to the blue wav...

When adding a waveform to a track, the waveform(s) after it shift along. In reverse order: The official way to do this is import the second clip and it will appear on a second timeline. Use the Time Shift tool (sideways black arrows) to shove the clip into position under the real show. When use the...

I'm fuzzy on how you got to where you are now. You ripped the Music CD into individual sound files and imported into Audacity? Or the CD was a data CD with a pile of MP3 files in it? In any event, Audacity does not have (that I know) Append/Import -- collect a bunch of files into one long show. It's...

And, oh by the way, write it up for Windows. If somebody sat you down in front of a computer cold, could you set it up again? Getting it to work yourself is nothing like writing it up so somebody else can do it. "I kept pushing buttons until it worked" is a one-off, sometimes even for that...

Post the sample as an MP3 at 128 or higher. I need to go back and read that again. My co host and I recorded a fairly long segment of us just messing around and testing stuff. He could hear the music and me. My concern is could he hear him? That's what throws people off -- having your own voice come...

Did you try to export your known, good, working filter (as I think an XML file) and import it into the new Audacity? That's not particularly straightforward, but it does work and you will not have to juggle settings.

Koz

What are you doing? What is the show? You can get that error if you pick a sample rate or bit depth that your computer hardware will never achieve. Try setting Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Edit > Preferences > Recording Edit > Preferences > Quality If that starts working, then you ...

Audacity has "Sound Activated Recording."
Edit > Preferences > Recording > Sound Activated...

Koz