Audacity Forum

Since you have a Windows laptop computer, chances are terrifically good you don't have a Line-In. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/PCLaptopSound.jpg Is it pink? That's a mono Mic-In and that's where your distortion is coming from. You're overloading it. It was designed to do this.. http://www....

Two ways that don't involve Audacity are recording the music from the Mac itself with SoundFlower. Open the work in Photobooth and use the Export features. If you have the FFMpeg extensions loaded in your Audacity, you could try and open the movie cold. If that doesn't work, then you're stuck with t...

But that only works if you're on a land-line phone. Never mind.

I wonder if anybody makes a pseudo-headset cable. One that connects like a regular headset, but also gives you the two sound signals on little connectors -- or maybe one stereo connector.

Koz

Audacity, particularly the early ones would play unknown files as if they didn't have compression. A two to one compressed audio show will play double speed. You can sometimes get around that by local capture such as recording the computer's audio instead of trying to download the file. http://wiki....

I think Audacity 1.3 has the ability to add labels on the fly. When the presenter makes a fluff, add a label to make it easier to find later. USB microphones were designed exactly for the people who don't want to mess with the technology but still do a presentable job. I've been able to produce some...

The stereo Line-In of a Macbook Pro is a world class digitizer.

Koz

There's a tool called "Auto Duck."

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... ck#p138245

Koz

I'm just reading back through this. You used your Olympus -- how? Since your expectations are already pretty much at bottom, you might be able to use one of those Radio Shack telephone coupler thingies. They do give you a direct connection, but they don't do much about the imbalance in volume betwee...

I have a feeling something might be wrong with my laptop's audio itself because this has happened before when I tried to use audio in a Cisco live buisness meeting.

Yes, that's suspicious. Do you have Skype?

Does your Cicso Live look anything like this...
Koz

The AUP file isn't sound. It's a text file with English-like words in it to control an Audacity internal format. WAV and AIFF (Microsoft & Apple) are cousins of each other and are actual, real sound files. MP3 and AAC are compressed and damaged delivery files. You can always start with a nice WA...