Audacity Forum

Nobody is going to talk you out of using Audacity 1.3. Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers. Do you use Skype? Sometimes Skype can leave your computer in a strange state. Look in your Windows Control Panels and make sure you're still recording from the USB Sound Device and not one of the ...

This short, perfect stereo test track works fine.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/LRMonoPhaset4.wav

Koz

No chance. It's mostly a mono track. It needs to be in good stereo for Vocal Removal to work. I couldn't do it, either. Vocal Removal works on any sound "in the middle" left to right of a stereo show. That would be violins on the left and trumpets on the right. Chances are good the singer ...

If the rubber pinchroller is old enough, it could get sticky and adhere to tapes. See if there's a cleaning process in the instructions. Can you reach in the tape chamber with a Q-Tip and alcohol? Vodka works, too. Scrub the rubber wheel and see if the sticky goo comes off. If you don't want to go t...

It depends on how old. You can call up the "sound" from many different ages by listening to the records.
Somebody makes a "noise" track. Just clicks and pops typical of a vinyl record. Koz

Metadata is always something of a crap shoot except in Music CDs. Music CDs do not carry Metadata. They seem to carry titles, etc, because if you play a CD in a computer, the computer looks up the music on-line and gives you all the information. That's why it doesn't work so well in your car. Some p...

the Canopus box is supposed to have an "Audi Only" capability.

I have a 100, so that may have changed. Koz

So with audacity I cannot record only the other party's voice during a skype conversation? You can't do it with most programs. In order to record internet anything, you have to load the Windows device that runs Record (for Audacity), and Playback to let you hear the internet audio. Skype needs both...

Win7 has some interesting additional services you may need to turn off.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... hancements
Koz

Scan down this web page. You have several of these problems. I'm a little long winded. Stick with it.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/wind ... rding.html

Koz