Audacity Forum

Name the file something unique and use the Windows Search system to find it.

Stay away from punctuation marks and spaces in filenames. Use only the "safe" characters: numbers, upper and lower case letters, dash and underscore. Nothing else.

Today is 20110523, not 5/23/11.

Koz

The sound card information is for the chipset, not the actual card. Do you have Stereo Line-In (sometimes blue) on the card? You can perform a test where you plug the Line-Out into the Line-In and set up for overdubbing, "Play tracks while recording new ones." I bet that doesn't work, eith...

There's something wrong with the headset model number. Google sends me to the steelseries web site, but a 4H search returns "Sorry, we didn't find the page." Got it. That headset is only available international, not to North America. So that's a non-USB headset, right? It plugs in like thi...

I suppose you could use the overdubbing technique -- play the drum track while you're recording the guitar. That will give you perfect cadence matching, but that gives you two tracks again.

Koz

Sometimes the punch-in would be within a sentence. Replace the sentence. Sophisticated non-linear editing was developed to get around problems like this. I remember punch-in. It was a nightmare because you never knew if it worked or not until you got the rest of the show down -- and about a third o...

MIDI is machine control, not sound. I tell the computer to play a note and it sends a MIDI command to my keyboard to press a key. Full stop. No sound yet. The keyboard actually makes the sound and you need some separate way to record it. I've read this through multiple times and I'm still fuzzy on w...

If your sound device fails to arrive in Mac Preferences, that's the end of the story. Now you get to tell us all about your USB Cable. Everything. Maker, model number, pictures. Mac Line-In is how I have the cassette machine connected in my illustration. That's connected to the two black arrows and ...

try to save it to Export as WAV That was a bad choice of words. Audacity will only Save Projects which will be useless to any other program. File > Export > WAV Microsoft .... That should drop into any editor video or audio. I make it a point to Export work into my Desktop, so I don't have to go di...

Step one, you didn't need the USB cable. Since you have a Macbook, you could have made do very well with one of these.. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MiniStereoToRCA.jpg http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLine-In.jpg You may still decide to do that. That simple connection is likely to give y...

-- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining) I'm insanely sure you ran out of heard drive space. If you never checked it, now is good. You don't have to know what the numbers mean, you do need to know that a good, roomy computer is only using half or 3/4...