Audacity Forum

Getting your internal microphone to appear in Stereo doesn't tell you very much. It's obviously only one microphone and they play internal games with it to make one channel into Left and Right. We know your internal Left and Right are working because you can hear Music CDs, YouTube, etc. in Stereo, ...

If it's a desktop computer, you should be able to find the Stereo Line-In connection. It's normally blue and it has the fan symbol with the arrow pointing in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_level#Line_in

You don't need the USB adapter at all.

Koz

Audacity 1.3.12 has very nice crash recovery tools -- less so in 1.2. Crash Recovery http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery They go Left, Right, Left, Right and the first two are picture files -- if the process got that far. Modern Macs do not support Audacity 1.2. You can get Au...

Just a quick note as we do this, you should restart Audacity every time you make a change like this for the new values to "stick." There is a note in the help system: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Troubleshooting_Recordings But that may not be applicable because you already ...

You do have FFMpeg, right? That's the only way Audacity can deal with AAC sound files. What do you mean it didn't work? The out-of-the-box Normalize tries to set sound values to "0" (really loud). If you try to Normalize music that's already at 0, nothing will happen. Try to normalize to -...

MIDI is machine control. It's not a sound signal. It's a Windows Laptop, right? Some of them have provision to switch one audio input from sensitive, mono, Mic-In to high-level, stereo, Line-In. Consult your instructions. Most don't. The cheapest, good quality way out is a UCA-202 USB sound card. ht...

Is it plugged all the way in? I'm serious. That connector does several very amusing jobs and it's easy to not get the plug all the way in -- and that will give you mono. You could have a defective cable. Is it a dual RCA to 1/8" stereo? Plug the cable into the Mac make sure the cable is selecte...

The machine reboots literally -- like you just turned it on? It's correct that this is very unusual behavior and the list of things that can do this is pretty small. You could have a bad memory stick. Only powerful audio and video editing software (and Photoshop) needs to access all the memory in yo...

Timing is critical. Did you do anything to the original music file in the second show before you exported the second WAV? Audacity was still standing on the original music files. If they vanish through deletion, moving, or renaming , the show will drop dead even though the blue waves are still there...

You can do all this in Audacity 1.3.12. Open a sound file and then import the same one. That will put two takes of the song one above the other. Use the Time Shift tool (black sideways arrows) and the Envelope Tool (white arrows and bent blue line) to move the tracks sooner and later in time and fad...