Audacity Forum

Before you even open Audacity, there should be an application that lets you control the device. Anything labeled "Control" or "Mixer." Was there an instruction package or is there an instruction book inside the stuff you installed? This looks like a delightful audio device, but s...

Everything is important. You posted a 1.3 question in the 1.2 forum. That's what threw me. Is your Audacity fresh with no additional filters or tools? You can download additional plugins to Audacity and if you get a bad one, it can cause Audacity to behave oddly. How large is your disk drive and how...

That's OK. we got it already. The file is blank.

You can open up an AUP file in notepad or wordpad and read it. It's a text file like this...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/aup1.jpg

Yours, however, is completely white screen blank. I'm guessing the last time you saved it, it didn't.

Koz

OK. Got it. The Line-In on this device is also the Phono-In (not Phone-In). Because you can't do both at once, there has to be a control panel or switch system somehow. It's possible there are switches on the bottom or inside the unit. It's much more likely that there is a software package that you'...

Audacity 1.2 is not supported on modern Macs and may be unstable. Download and use Audacity 1.3.12 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

Ummmm. I think I got lost there. It's only during Export that the problems manifest? How do you know that the waveforms are the same between similar performances of loud and soft songs?

I'll get a file up once I am back with the computer

Two files. The good one and the bad one.

Koz

You didn't "lose" the content. Chances are you removed the content from Audacity's reach. Audacity, unless you change it, doesn't pull music into itself for editing. It plays and edits music from outside files -- and leaves the files right there . Did you "clean up" all those sou...

You can't give us too much information. What external sound card? Which laptop and which windows?

Koz

There's a few different version of Chris's dynamics compressor floating around. Could you post a screen-shot of the version that you are using.

I think we may be dealing with something different than just compression. Let's see what the sound samples are like.

Koz

Did we ever find out the particulars of your system? I don't recall it. Windows? Which one? What are you using to burn the CD? Which program and what are the settings? I recall a setting in iTunes where you can set automatic level compensation where it tries to set the volume for you. Over on Window...