Audacity Forum

You've been perfectly clear and helpful, and it's crystal clear to us none of this should be happening. You have the simplest possible show and a reasonably powerful computer should be able to handle it while loafing in the back yard with a cup of tea. I'm in la-la land now and if we can't find anyt...

What's the hard drive light doing while you're waiting for the Audacity Project to load? What's the screen doing? During the wait, could you go off and check email? Which Virus Protection do you have and does it make any difference if you disconnect your network and suspend the Virus software? Will ...

It's always dangerous when people use the phrase "I opened the aup file." You did that and then the aup Project Manager File opened up the _data folder with the thousands of sound and data snippets and then opened up all the attached and associated music files you used. So no, you did not ...

Loading a 58 minute .aup file takes 1:18. That's one minute, eighteen seconds, right? Something's wrong. I double click on an AUP file and Audacity opens and mounts an hour long show just under four seconds -- with FireFox running and active. You defragged, but did you error check? And while those t...

You should read through that web page. It's a clear, straightforward, illustrated presentation of all the stuff we're going to tell you anyway. If there are any parts of that page you don't understand or don't work right, post back.
Koz

You might want to record with higher specifications if you plan on doing serious post production later. If all you're doing is blowing your club sets off to a CD at the end of the night, then yes, advanced sound specifications may be a waste of time and disk space. We are all assuming you want to pr...

If you mean the key signature rhythm goes up, then the quarter notes would get shorter as a direct ratio of the speedup. Everything's 20% faster. If the key signature rhythm doesn't change, then each note duration stays the same and they overlap. Did you miss a definition in the question? Or did I m...

Does the turntable come with software and did you install it? Is there more modern software from the manufacturer? People are still playing catch-up with Windows 7. Win7 makes different assumptions about sound than earlier Windows did.

Koz

The best recordings result when you use the internal Stereo-Mix or What-U-Hear instead of hardware. Those services route the speaker sound back into the record system so Audacity can grab it -- without ever leaving the computer. I gather you're using your microphone pushed up against your speakers t...

You can do it on a BluRay, too, but neither of those will play in your car -- or you mum's music player. A Music CD is a special format and you need a Music CD Authoring Program to get there. iTunes will do this on both Windows and Mac. Windows Media Player can do it, too, at least the more modern o...