Audacity Forum

Windows Properties might tell you the bitrate that was used for the MP3 encoding. Right-click the sound file > Properties > Advanced. Audacity default is 128 which will give you very good quality, but may be overkill for you. You also need to know that mono sound files encode at almost half the bitr...

When you export a file using the "regular" Audacity, it stops and asks you if you want to add information like artist, type of music, dates and comments. If you put information in those panels, it becomes 'metadata'. Data or information over and above what's needed to play the music. The p...

I can't get either QuickTime or iTunes to work "straight" from the command line. I didn't check the open -a thing. This may just not be high on the list of desired talents. OS-X was the first Mac operating system that had a terminal -- and, coincidentally, one of the main reasons many of o...

This room was aggressively designed not to expand. The tiny table is slightly wider than the Peavey. That's what, eight inches? It bumps right up against the operator's knees.
Koz

Changing the selected input device in Audacity should not change the system device. No surprise there, but I always assumed if I force changed the Mac, Audacity would try to follow me. This makes my head hurt, because that means I can be listening to iTunes or the YouTube cat flushing the toilet wh...

Beta version 1.3.

You posted in the Audacity 1.2 forum.

Koz

You defragmented, but do you have enough drive space? I forget the accurate number, but it's megs per minute at the default Audacity capture configuration.

Anything else going on with your machine? Does it still do that if you disconnect the internet and restart?

Koz

The English words "listen in the car" are the ones that Chris Capel used in his web site when he introduced his compression software. It has roughly the same effect that the leveling and processing at your local FM station has. It doesn't appear to be doing anything, but the show is louder...

Is it not possible that associated - shall we say - informal methods of production and mastering eg in the bedroom are responsible for this? Before the RIAA forced the adoption of one vinyl customization curve, everybody had their own and each one was far better than the others. I wouldn't be shock...

It sounds like that because you're recording your laptop microphone instead of the turntable.

This is our wiki page on recording a USB turntable.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_turntables
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_t ... _turntable

Koz