Audacity Forum

Audacity Projects have two parts: the AUP project manager file and the _DATA folder with the sound snippets in it. Did you lose both?

Koz

You used File > Save As or FIle > Save? If I use File > Save As and pick the original filename, then I will get an overwrite.

Koz

Do you have the amplifier connected to the Mic-In of your computer?

Koz

Noise Reduction is only possible on noises that are constant through the whole show. Your noise is erratic and there's no way to get a Noise Profile for the tool. Noise Profile is a sample of the noise with no voice. Your noise is only there when the voice is. So that's the end of the tool. This sou...

Microsoft will not willingly show you the file extension. MyMusic.wav will appear as just MyMusic to you in Windows. To reveal the filename extensions: -- Hidden File Extensions -- Start > My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View > [ ] Hide Extensions for Known File Types (deselect) -- Apply (to ...

two audio recording applications simultaneously

This is me backing slowly toward the door....

Koz

Audacity does not edit MP3. What it does is convert incoming MP3 to its own powerful, large internal format and edit that. So the tiny, efficient, compressed MP3 balloons to a huge file on import. How much room do you have on your computer?

Koz

The bottom one is correct. That's what happens when you put a 20KHz sine wave into a 44.1KHz sampling system and don't limit the system frequency response. You will never hear that distortion, partly because unless you are a little girl,you can't hear that far up, but also because the distortion pro...

Windows thinks you're trying to make a conference call and is suppressing any sustained sounds -- like music.
Koz

Audacity is a complete slave to whatever the computer is doing. If FRAPS is taking over the computer sound services, then that's the sound that Audacity is going to get. Audacity controls its input sound by sending commands to the system. It doesn't actually do scaling by itself. It doesn't do any e...