Audacity Forum

WAV/AIFF. Aiff is missing many of the restrictions of the WAV format and I wouldn't be surprised to find the data structure was more efficient, too. It just doesn't happen to match anybody else (Microsoft). Quality of the work is identical. The planet is full of interesting surprises like that. The ...

Yes. Set Audacity to match your sound device. A darn good place to start is changing Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Restart Audacity.

The Audacity default of 32-bit Floating kills a lot of sound interconnections.

Koz

That's one of those tools that looks good on paper. In order to get rhythm management like that to work, you need to know what the show rhythm is now and that's not easy. If you have a song where the drum or rhythm guitar come and go through the course of the show, then the program has to average lo...

I was playing the part of the clueless, scattered, right-brain, creative user. I know the programmers consider Using and Timing to be two completely separate operating conditions, but trust me, the users don't see it -- or want it -- that way. "I just got a call. They need me in the [Important ...

What's the noise and what's the show? If you're trying to record a lecture from the back of the room, that show may be permanently damaged. Because the tools are very specific, we need to know all about the show. We can get rid of some air conditioner noise, but not metro-bus motor noises or other v...

overwriting the original file. That makes my teeth hurt. Anybody who does serious sound work learns not to do that. Even you will eventually find you need the original sound capture (if that's what it was) and wish you hadn't overwritten each time you performed an edit. Another problem that happens...

Windows will only recognize one Sound Device at a time. You can point it to an external USB mixer or a computer microphone, but not both. The mixer will, or course mix as many microphones as you can fit, but it all get smooched down to stereo before it gets recorded. That's not to say you can't do i...

This is the Audacity 1.2 forum. Your question is a little surreal. I'm racking my brain to think of the writer who wrote a short story this remind me of. I think David Sedaris. He wrote about taking his car in for service. It has a car bomb and it keeps going off during the course of the story -- bu...

Audacity AUP isn't a sound file and it travels with other files and folders as a team. We urge strongly that if you have a valuable show, Export as WAV and then make a backup of that file. WAV is a single, stand-alone music file and contains the whole show.

Koz

I may have missed one step there. Where are the WAV files now? Is there any provision to connect your recorder to your computer digitally and do file transfers that way? USB or FireWire?

Koz