Audacity Forum

Camtasia produces embedded video files -- or at least ours does. What software did you use to split off the sound? Audacity won't open video files.

Koz

<<<If we just can't resolve this any other way, you may be invited to help in the debug effort. >>> See? Many points to you for sticking with us through this. You're a digital celebrity. They're going to start recognizing you on sight down at the gas station/petrol pump. "Cool! Aren't you the g...

I've been deleting the user and posts and yes, I do wish there was a faster way to do it. 27 rapid new postings for "[email protected]@ do not warrant any further effort.

I think many of these tools are burned into the forum software and do not change.

Koz

Yet another vote for Command Line Scripting.

No, not that I know of.

Koz

<<<I only edit mp3 files with Audacity if I intend to make an AudioCD from them.>>>

And then only if you didn't have the option of starting out with a much higher quality.

Koz

I may have lead one of the posters down the garden pathway. He wanted to convert a 44100, 16 AIFF to 44100, 16 WAV. I told him to set Audacity to 44100, 16-bit, open the show and export in the new format. That's not strictly true, is it? Audacity always goes to 32-bit in the middle thus giving you t...

Already alarm bells are ringing. How is it possible that an artistic production format is foreign to a CD company, and how it's possible they can't convert it... but OK. Set Audacity Preferences to 44100, 16-bit Stereo. Restart Audacity and make sure the preferences stuck. Open the show in Audacity....

<<<I don't know what version of the OS or of Audacity it was using, but I can say that it was definitely a newer Intel Mac...>>> That's important. Schools and institutions frequently forbid installing of Beta version software of any kind and Audacity non-beta, Version 1.2.5, is not stable on newer M...

The problem may be a little more basic. Stop using Audacity 1.2.5 immediately. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac You don't have to take 1.2.5 off. They will both install, but you can only use one at a time and Audacity 1.3 projects will not open in 1.2 -- not that you'd want to. Audacity 1.2...

Do we ever get digital debris when we destroy a SPAM account at the exact instant that the Spammer posts a message? A race condition? I have seen one posting that didn't seem to have a live poster behind it. It doesn't happen often.

Koz