Audacity Forum

"Illustrator" turns out to be a text file incorrectly placed. I wondered about that.
Koz

This is the structure of Snow Leopard and it's fairly common. Screen shot 2011-08-28 at 9.00.57 PM.png That's where "Music" is in the grand scheme of things. Note the "~" directory in the supervisory level. We assume that's why I needed my password. I do not like needing my passw...

Yes, but you shouldn't need to do that. Describe how your system is connected. Macs don't have a Mic-In, so how did you get there?

Koz

If you drag-select one of the missing songs from the timeline, do you still get damage if you Export Selection? Describe how you're capturing the second side of the record. I would be using Record Pause, flip the record, and resume capturing. What did you do? Did you use Silence Finder to determine ...

How have you got your cassette machine connected to your Windows machine? Laptop, right?

If you plug your headphones into your cassette machine, do you hear the beeping? Is it a portable cassette machine and are the batteries getting low?

Koz

Actually, I'm happy with the video analogy, being a telelvision type. Early analog videotape machines did something very similar called the DOC or Drop Out Compensator. If they played over a rough patch of tape, they would replace the visual damage with a closely associated patch of healthy video. I...

Past the correction of quality sound, it's also necessary to compensate for the level and that can be its own nightmare. It's very common for people to jam a stereo, line-level signal into the Mic-In of a Windows laptop. It's also not uncommon for that to produce painful clipping at 0.5 or 6dB down ...

While what you're doing should work, we'd just as soon you were working in Audacity 1.3 instead of Audacity 1.2. Much of the help, repair, fixit, and sophisticated tools are in Audacity 1.3. Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported, patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can be unstabl...

You will find yourself living in the magnifier tools so you can see problems like this. Drag-Select and Control-E, for controlled zoom in, Control-F for full, Control-1, Control-2 and Control-3 for fine zoom control. The corrections need not be crazy. You can select the first quarter of the wave aft...

Step one we warn people never to do production in MP3. MP3 is a compressed sound format and has compression damage built-in. The damage goes up as you use the file in your edit. So from the idea that it's never going to sound perfect, you need to make sure that there is no DC level on each of the pa...