Audacity Forum

Sometimes it's helpful when something like this happens to get compulsive. "It stops recording after fifteen minutes, thirty seconds and it does it that way every time." Different problems cause different errors and it would be good to know that it halts in the exact spot every time. Do yo...

I can use Audacity to record and play files as Audacity files, and Audacity appears to export these files as MP3 files

You just missed saying where the music came from. Is this you singing and playing the guitar into a microphone?
Koz

Just to cover the bases, so you have the Windows Conferencing Services turned off? http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Recording#enhancements This can also be a symptom of your sound system being wired wrong. http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav The last segment is intentionally damaged to...

Oops. Sorry. You don't need that (although it handy to have). You can File > Export > Other Uncompressed Format and search for uLaw.

Koz

You should probably install the FFMpeg software package from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

And when you File > Export your show, choose "Custom FFMpeg Export" and then find your format in the listings.

Koz

I'm expecting a watermill to sound like vigorously splashing water possibly pulsing slightly as the paddles come around. Maybe not. Add in wood-on-wood groaning and squeaking sounds and possibly stone-on-stone when the scene shifts to the actual wheels doing the work. The trick is to divorce your he...

Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Does Lion still have a sound meter in that panel -- a line of blue lights that bounce when you play music? Does it bounce when you play music through the Presonus.

Koz

If you think the applications are too "busy" then by all means close them. Also disconnect the network and if you have Time Machine running, disconnect the drive or temporarily close Time Machine. Stop AirPort. Do you have Virus Software? Many Macs don't, but that can mess you up by trying...

Yes, you drag-select and then you can just press DEL on your keyboard. Play around the new edit and make sure you did it right and Edit > UNDO if you messed up. You missed a step. Music CDs are in a non-file standard format. You need to "rip" the show or convert it into something you can e...

The standard music formats only support a certain amount of meta-data and it's fixed. This is something of a historic problem. In order to save space and increase the amount of music with the technology of the time, Music CDs have no meta-data. Some of the newer music compression formats can have Us...