Audacity Forum

when she came back to listen to her recordings and send them to me, she couldn't get any sound. Did she send them to you anyway and what do they sound like? In My Opinion, you should trash Audacity 2 and install one of the earlier Audacity versions. I think I was happy with Audacity 1.3.13 or 1.3.1...

It had been automatically created by Windows when it did a critical system update earlier on the same day So that would be Tuesday. (I'll ask if she'd closed the program during that hiatus.) That would be good to know. Most well-behaved updates wait until the machine is loafing before applying upda...

What's the preamp? Model numbers? Can you still hear the music through the speakers? One minute I was finishing up a record side and playing back the quality recording; the next minute, with a fresh record under my new stylus, Audacity decided to stop working. No response in the level meter even tho...

Forget all the fancy dual channels and click tracks. Can you make a straight, simple recording with the built-in microphone? If not, your computer may be busy doing other jobs and can't devote enough power to your voice. Many friends with Macs like to keep everything running all the time and just br...

How are you listening to the final sound files? In Windows? Can you listen on a separate computer? I don't think Audacity is doing this. I think Windows is trying to Help You by automatically leveling the work. If you Import both the before and the after into Audacity, are the blue waves the same si...

You didn't say so in English words, but are you Exporting in MP3? What happens if you Export WAV or other format like AIFF that doesn't need exotic export software? Are you using universal filenames, no punctuation marks and no dates? I've had a new Audacity install try to save music to the System D...

One more. Variable Bitrate will allow you to do better quality at the same filesize by pushing bits into places that need them and taking them away when you don't. Content can make a big difference here. Head-Banging Rock tends to benefit less from Variable than Classical with lots of silences does....

The absolute best is the highest bitrate. That also gives you the biggest files. MP3 is a compressed format and it gets the small files by throwing away quality that you probably don't need anyway. It always throws away quality and you can't stop it. All you get is the "How Much" slider. A...

I think you went straight over the cause of the problem. How exactly did you connect the amp to the computer and what kind of computer is it?
Koz

If you do that, you should configure your Audacity to 48000, 16-bit Stereo. That's the video sound format, not 44100. You'll get fewer conversions and the fidelity standard is slightly higher.

Koz