Audacity Forum

If it's still behaving badly, it has to be in the laptop settings. Does the laptop have sound settings or control panels different from Windows? That's a very odd combination. That's usually a hardware switch, not software. Some computers use software routing and it's possible to get those confused....

Audacity Preferences > Recording > [ ]Overdub..., [ ]Hardware..., [ ]Software..., should be all be unchecked. Restart Audacity.

Koz

Saved file. Opened today, it was fine. I edit this file, no problem. I save to come back later. When I come back, chunks are missing in the middle of the podcast, then an hour is gone completely. That step right there. You mean you Exported a WAV backup and then Saved a Project? Then you opened up ...

There are two ways to burn a CD. A Data CD which is a flat, shiny computer hard drive, and a Music CD which is a very special format to intentionally hold music. It's the same physical disk. You burned the wrong one. Pay attention to the burning or authoring step. Most times they will give you instr...

First thing you should probably do is stop using the word "MP3" and "Production" or "Editing" in the same sentence. MP3 is a delivery format. The last step before you listen to the music, not the first step or the steps in the middle. It's also a video format. It's full...

The poster did say so.

Audacity 1.2.5 (on MacOSX 10.4)

So that's Tiger. Pretty early cat.

Koz

As we asked before, please state what version of OS X you are using.

Desktop > Apple (upper left) > About This Mac.

Koz

Audacity doesn't "know" what speech is. All it sees is the blue waves pretty much indistinguishable from a saxophone solo. If somebody said I needed to do this. I'd probably mark off a one minute chunk of timeline and count the syllables as the speaker progressed. You can't do this with th...

You could also split the backing track ahead of time and record the voice over that. That's probably the easiest.

Koz

Right. That's we're talking about. It happens in post production, not in real time. You would record your vocal track and go back and split the backing track (two separate tracks) and push the backing track forward so there's a hole. During the hole, it's your voice with no track. If your voice and ...