Audacity Forum

That's a pretty serious mixer. Do you get Audacity blue waves and a bouncing red recording meter when you play music on the mixer and record in Audacity? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_record.jpg If you do, then you are getting a recording and we just need you to hear it. If you don't, do ...

when I transfer either mp3 or wav files

Can you light that up a little more? From your library? Download? From where?

Do you have to be doing anything? Load a sound file and go for coffee. Does it still crash?

Koz

Thats interesting.

Maybe not so interesting. I got an argument about that assumption.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 23#p201854

Koz

Another note: Music CDs (the kind that play in your car) are stereo. Full stop. But you can make a Data CD (like a flat, shiny hard drive) and put many different files on that. You could have multiple sound files on that kind of disk. Koz

We did a recording with another individual----not sure of the equipment-----recorded using 4 tracks I think we need to know a lot more about that part. A very natural thing would be to record four different microphones, but then mix them down to a stereo sound file for delivery to the client -- you...

What are you playing back into and did you change it? Are you playing to your internal speakers? New USB Headphones? Describe your system. Koz

Audacity always works at 32-float internally in order to avoid damage during filters and special effects. When you Export your show, Audacity creates a whole new sound file, divorced from the one that came in. This will probably affect you little or not at all, but it kills the people trying to edit...

If you have a stereo, L and R track, you can use the menus from the left pulldown to "Split Stereo Track." From there you can do anything you want to the two separated tracks.

Koz

Select a bit of the work and post it here for us to look at. Include that clipped portion http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936 You can't actually repair clipping. That's like a bowl of different fruits with one piece missing -- and then finding software to "repair the ho...

Yes, the volume control is just for headphones.

Koz