Audacity Forum

You won't be making very many edits on the spot because Audacity's real-time tools are limited to recording, playback and certain timer functions. But certainly you can Stop, listen, edit, and then use Transport > Append Recording to keep going without the error. When you're recording, do you get bo...

Using Audacity 1.2.6 and Windows Vista. Audacity 1.2 is unstable on Windows Vista. Install Audacity 1.3. Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported, patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers. Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here... http:...

And in that one sentence we need to find out what Audacity you're on. You should be on Audacity 1.3 for all the fancy-pants tools. You also need to download and install the "lame" MP3 software. After you do that. File > Export > MP3 > Options. You're intended to apply the Low Pass Filter o...

If you're on Windows, you can use Windows Media to author the disk. Follow their instructions. Music CDs will not hold more than 78 minutes of music and compressing the music ahead of time doesn't help.

Koz

Audacity doesn't burn anything, so you would Export your show: File > Export > Wav...16bit. Like MyMusic.wav, although you won't see the ".wav" part of the name on most Windows machines. Don't use punctuation marks or dates in your filenames. Open that music file in the CD Authoring and Bu...

We do have this wiki on improving quality and it mentions hardware problems. Your computer may not be able to keep up with the work. Slower computers which seem just fine for Spreadsheets and Photoshop will fall face-forward when you try to do live audio or video production. Live audio doesn't wait ...

Are you on a corporate or business machine? Did you get your Mac from someone in the IT department? you will not be able to change the software without talking to them. Are you an Administrator on your Mac? Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Accounts. Mine looks like the picture and I can ins...

using an audio interface We live on high-quality information. Who made the interface and what's the model number? The very first time anybody has troubles with Audacity 1.2 we tell them to stop using it. It's very old and unstable. Get and install Audacity 1.3 from here... http://audacityteam.org/d...

The best we can do is a collection of instruction postings on how to record on your computer. It covers how to stop recording Stereo Mix which is what you're doing.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 22#p157876

Koz

A full virus scan of your computer -- not the wimpy one that runs in the background. Then do Microsoft's stand-alone virus scan. http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx Are you trying to download over a WiFi connection? That can cause problems --particularly if you are in ...