Audacity Forum

Yes, that file isn't very chatty. I wonder if we answered the poster's questions?

Koz

Analyze this. Let's see if we get similar numbers.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2-CoolEdit.mp3

Koz

MediaInfo. I thought there was more buried down there. It's available on Mac, too.

Koz

...and this is a hex dump of the file. Picture 2.png I suspect if somebody went to the trouble of writing comments and other information in the MetaData section, I would be able to find that and you could probably track that. But if, as in this case, all I did was record a performance, Export a musi...

Here we go. This is what normal INFO can tell us.
Koz

You might be able to tell if the clip was created with the "lame" encoder or the Fraunhofer software. The file header may have information about bitrate, etc, but it's less likely you can tell the actual software editor. I know of no way to tell if an MP3 was resampled or restructured. Thi...

Where did you find a tape machine that would still do 15 ips? NAB hubs? It's possible somebody set up a microphone at one end of the room and rolled tape. You get many of the same problems as somebody sitting in the audience of a rock concert. If you pay attention, it may not overload, but the perfo...

One of Audacity's shortcomings is that it will receive, handle, and pass DC with no trouble at all. This causes all sorts of problems when your show is actual sound mixed with battery. So it's purely a hardware issue. You do need to know that Audacity will only do that with DC levels that do not exc...

OK the dialog box without typing anything in any of the boxes. You can set this extra dialog not to appear in the Audacity preferences.

Koz

<<<So you're saying just recycle the old computers.>>> Basically. Steve may have other ideas, but you're offering slow, outdated computers with an odd operating system. There are cellphones more powerful and easier to use than some of those older computers. Yes, you can install a tiny linux OS on a ...