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To your other point, yes, if you try to do this with a real Music CD or Movie DVD or BluRay, it should work fine, subject to the other rules: -- You always get a mono show out the other end, not stereo minus the voice. -- Any music in the center of the stereo field goes, too, like drums and bass. --...

Even if you get a nice download, chances are very good it's been compressed or processed for space or download efficiency. Not a good candidate for karaoke. Nobody misses that the show is in mono instead of stereo, (50% saving in filesize), but everybody notices when it takes twice as long to downlo...

The tutorials work fine. Not all music lends itself to karaoke, and in fact, most music, particularly internet downloads, fails. With the song on the timeline, magnify one small piece multiple times until you can see the individual waves like the picture below. If both sets are waving up and down at...

It's in mono. It may have two sound tracks, but they're the same. You need a stereo show and a very good stereo show to do vocal suppression. Koz

The process of making an MP3 can cause sound problems. Are you making MP3s for a specific reason? It's best to archive vinyl to a high quality sound format like WAV and then make a lower quality MP3 for your portable player from that. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tutorial_-_Copying_tapes,_LPs_...

No. MIDI is not a sound format. MIDI is a machine control format. MIDI is a computer's way of playing a keyboard by telling it which key to press and how hard. If you play a MIDI song on a computer, the computer plays it on its own internal MIDI interpreter (fake keyboard). If you play the song on d...

Windows 7 has a conferencing service that tries to help you with level setting and audio processing. You should look for it and turn it off.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... hancements

Koz

You're working way too hard. Change iTunes settings to import a Music CD as WAV and it won't try to translate, compress, and damage the music. It will leave the music the WAV format that it was on the CD (but it will take up a lot more room). Then you can open the music and do production in Audacity...

Ordinary Audacity doesn't understand fancy music file formats. To do that, you have to download and install the FFMpeg software from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Pick your operating system and follow the links.

Koz

Just that the problem may not be the network. Audacity is not "Network Aware" and cannot deal with collisions, renegotiations and resends. I know modern networks seem to be perfectly smooth and clear to you, but they're constantly managing packet transmission in the background to keep conn...