Audacity Forum

Audacity doesn't have "Punch-In" or "Import Insert," so the best you can do is record your intro by just pressing record on your existing show (after you save the Project and Export a WAV version). Mute the existing show with the tools on the left of the track. The new recording ...

Neither iTunes nor Windows Media use conventional music files. They compress them for space considerations.

The music should open in Audacity if you install the FFMpeg software.
http://audacityteam.org/download/

If you have purchased and copy-protected music, it still won't open.

Koz

Pretty much why we insist you never do production in MP3. MP3 is a destructive compression format. It sacrifices musical quality to get tiny files. You can tune it. File > Export > MP3 > Options. the bitrate determines the quality. Audacity defaults to 128 for a stereo show. That's roughly medium or...

Since you're on WIn7 now, you could have most of these problems...

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

Koz

Getting rid of a damaged Audacity 1.2 install in Windows can be an adventure. I thought we had a more formal description of it, but I did find this..
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 637#p22399

Koz

That's what dither is. It's intentional very low level noise added to the show to keep the digital errors from adding up. Sub sampling is inexact. If you never changed sampling rates, it would be a perfect world. But we do. You can have music that fits perfectly inside the 32-floating environment an...

You may be listening to Dither. You can turn dither off in Preferences > Quality. You should not resample if you do that, so set Audacity to 44100, 16-bit (not 32) and Stereo, or whatever your show is. If the digital specification is different at the Input, the Output or Audacity Internal, then Auda...

There only way to tell if DialNorm is applied is to listen -- or have a decoder that tells you. The bad news is that DialNorm is always there. The trick for simple video editing is to adjust it so it doesn't work most of the time -- it stays out of the way. Commercial movies and shows tend to use it...

Oh, yes. Perfectly. You can use the "Label" system. Place a label (Control-B or Command-B) at the beginning of each song you want to isolate. One label for each song and the last song has nothing at the end. You need to know that the beginning label for song 2 is also the end label for son...

The only time I got dead zero on the meters was when I selected the S/PDIF input with nothing connected. Then it's a straight shot from the outside world to Audacity with no translations or other tricks. And no digital input. It didn't seem to make any difference where the volume controls were under...