Audacity Forum

If you got a good recording, the playback should look something like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg Your tool and window sizes might be a little different. We need to split the problem between not having a show in the first place, or having one and not being able to he...

I'm going to be giving you instructions for Audacity 1.3.12. Audacity 1.2 is very out of date and can be unstable. You can install both of them, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2.

Koz

That didn't go well. The podcasts will not play live and downloading crashes. Are they working on the servers -- this being Sunday night? Anyway, we can't do anything with "It Sounds Terrible," so record four or five seconds, Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono, and Export as FLAC. Post it here ...

You got lucky. Many people find they have no "hidden" features and have to resort to software to make it all work.

Koz

This isn't an Audacity problem. When you set up to record internet audio, Windows runs both record and play sides of the sound card at once. You need to turn that off to record your voice or guitar. Go into Windows Control Panels and set your microphone or connection for recording, not "Mix-Out...

It's the first thing new computer owners want to do and it's the very last thing on the Windows/Microsoft To-Do list.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

Or you can cut right to the chase...

http://www.applian.com/freecorder4/download.php

Koz

You're not recording your voice. You're recording "Mix-Out" or "Stereo-Mix" instead which captures all the sound the computer is making. That's where the double recordings come from. This is the setting you need to record internet audio and you can't do both. You need to reset th...

Here's the specifics from someone kind enough to write down what he did. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=41179&start=0 As we go... <<<Lenovo Thinkpads have an issue with recording sound coming from the computer>>> That's not what you're doing. You are using an approved pat...

<<<We have gotten a couple podcasts posted that don't sound like complete trash and the force of my personality seems to have carried them a little bit.>>> We tell people all the time that an announcing voice is not easy to achieve a: in real life or b: with software. People still pay for that. <<<I...

Audacity doesn't always supply perfectly normal sound files and when iTunes sees one of these things, it's a toss-up whether it needs to produce a Data CD or a Music CD. It could be either. You can specifically tell iTunes what to do at the burn step.

Koz