Audacity Forum

I thought there was something magic about it. Thank you.
Koz

The Old....what? What Audacity version are you running?

Koz

It's as simple as Desktop > Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input and select your USB device. Close everything and open or restart Audacity. Go into Audacity > Preferences and set the same thing. Restart Audacity. You can probably get away with not performing many of those steps with...

A Data CD appears to the system as a shiny, flat hard drive. I think there is an ISO standard for it that I can't remember. Literally, you can put a Photoshop picture, two spreadsheets, a Publisher wedding invite, and three WAV music files on there and about anybody with a modern computer will be ab...

Does your car support playing Data CDs with MP3 music files? Many older cars (like mine) don't. If you use your software to create a Standard Music CD (not Data CD), then the car will play the music perfectly with no metadata at all. Standard Music CDs do not support song titles or anything else. Th...

The delay is not coming from the wireless. That's practically instantaneous. The delay is the digital processing. If the display system has internal video processing, they have to add sound delay in addition to all the rest of the processing delays. Record something that has staccato sounds like ham...

Can you plug the wall power supply into the wall upside down? That might help. Many wall power modules can be plugged in either direction and they hum more one way than the other. You might also test your outlets. What you have is not normal and may be dangerous. http://www.amazon.com/ELECTRICAL-REC...

-- Koz posting on behalf of DiamondDave. -- I am using Windows 7 Home Premium and Audacity 1.3 13-Beta. I have been working with Audacity for about two weeks and have had some success with about ten songs. But on the flip side, I have had trouble with certain songs that I like better. I have done th...

Does it go away when you connect everything but lift the laptop shore-power wall power supply -- run on batteries? Alternately, are all your products plugged into one power strip or wall outlet? That's actually a good thing. You can run into troubles when you plug things into separate outlets and th...

Skype and other VIOP services soak up all the computer's sound pathways. Skype is known for that. You can either run Skype or you can do other things. Not both. There was a posting that wanted to Skype between actors across the country and simultaneously upload the mixed show to an internet supplier...