Audacity Forum

I don't know that the quality issue is going to come down to: "if the waveform does that, it's a bad card." Equipment with really good specifications can sound funny to you and old respected classic equipment can have very ordinary specifications. Neumann U87 microphone specifications are ...

I wish Lion didn't automatically hide the user library - finally set it to permanently show and that sped things up. The User Library? I thought it hid the system settings and the System Library. But yes, like Windows hiding filename extensions, it's really cool and fashionable until something goes...

You need to remember to turn those settings off if you want to do plain recording -- like reading Goethe into a microphone. Or at least remember you did that before you write back complaining your microphone is broken.

Koz

Stereo-Mix will make your head hurt. The computer has to run the Record and Play parts of the computer at the same time for you to record YouTube. It's a delicate act and if you mess up a setting, it's the same as getting your rock band microphone too close to the speakers. .....eeeeEEEEEE. It's mor...

Audacity thought you wanted it to send the sound to your Sony/Philips Digital Interface. S/PDIF. If you don't have one of those, then pick one of the Windows selections.
Koz

A slash mark inside a filename can send the computer looking for a non-existent disk. Never put dates inside filenames. Today is 20121203.

Koz

The analog outputs on the M-AUDIO Ozonic are the 1/4" sockets, not RCA. I assume because they're intended to connect to a rock band system, not a recording studio. You can get there with adapters such as these. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062455 I can't tell from the ...

Doesn't it indicate that the problem may lay with my installation of Audacity? Right. See: pull down the speaker selector. Audacity could be trying to send the sound anywhere. You can also get there with Edit > Preferences > Devices > Recording and Playback. Like I said, it's extraordinarily common...

First paragraph - highlighted in the blue box (perhaps it should be highlighted more strongly): Perhaps we leave the color (sorry, colour) alone and rewrite it so it's clearer? The FAQ failure in each and every case is that everybody thinks AUP is a sound format. It's not and nowhere in the documen...

So it's a sound format inside Audacity, in which case the poster's job should have worked.
Koz