Audacity Forum

The first immediate problem is plugging your cellphone into your Windows® Laptop computer. Did I hit it? The connection from the cellphone is the "headphone or earpiece" signal, and likely to be powerful and closer to Line-Level and not Microphone Level. Briefly, you can't plug that into t...

Most people use Constant Bitrate because it's the most compatible with the most numbers of players. Same with Speex. You can do very well, but your player must know what Speex is. There is no relationship between bit depth/sample rate and compression or quality, other than a fuzzy relationship that ...

And dear staffman maybe it is time to face the fact that your little app may fail? Oh, it's possible. I didn't say it wasn't. We get too many postings like: "I can't find the Stop button. That's a bug, right?" So anybody who includes the "B" word in the first posting is immediat...

Where did Windows Media get the file from, what kind and how long is it?

Koz

Do you have FFMpeg software installed? If it's blank look time, then that could be the problem. Audacity will sometimes open and cheerfully edit a show when it really doesn't understand what the show format is. This leads to insanity downstream when you try to use the show for a presentation. Exactl...

OK. I got it. The Mixer sends everything as a large, multi-channel USB connection. The first two microphone channels happen to work out to USB channel 1 and USB channel 2, so Audacity is perfectly happy with that. The other USB channels, 3, 4, FX, Mix, Return, etc., may be missing -- at least in Aud...

The levels on each mic are turned up. Still nada. You need to use more English words. Still missing microphones 3 and 4 -- only -- or nothing works? What exactly are the microphones, down to model numbers? Are you using store-bought parts and interconnecting cables, or did you make some of them you...

Do I need new FFMpeg and lame to upgrade between 1.3.12 and 1.3.13? Do I need to assassinate my Preference File?

Koz

Do the lights on the mixer bounce when you scratch, tap, or talk into each microphone? If not, make sure the "Gain" controls (at the top) for 3 and 4 match 1 and 2. Usually around 3 O'Clock or so for a start. Put the "Pan" controls all in the middle. Advance each microphone fader...

And yes, you'll be doing all this in Audacity 1.3, not Audacity 1.2. Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers. Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can install bot...