Audacity Forum

If you have two internal hard drives (and we assume they're bigger than 1GB each), are they mounted as c: and d:? What drive letter is your DVD/CD drive?

Koz

If you open them up in Windows Media, do they play OK there?

Koz

So now you have all time zones represented and we're no further along.

Pull down short test clips piano2.wav. organfinale.wav or LRMonoPhase4.wav from here:

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

Play them. Still get the delay?

Koz

One other point. All these techniques work much better when you're not on speakerphone. Either handset or headphones are strongly recommended -- both parties.

Koz

Some people do this via a Skype account and Pamela Professional or Business software. Most telephone systems have to struggle with separating the outgoing and incoming voice, outgoing usually being much louder and generally overwhelming. "How can I make the far voice much louder?" The broa...

<<<I'd like to keep this format before I send it off to the record pressing plant.>>> Are you going to send them that format? Can they handle it OK? Did they say so in English words, or are you assuming it? Audacity was the first time I ever encountered 32-bit float. Everybody I know does mastering ...

<<<HD has over 750 gig available.>>> On a drive that's how big? That may be the problem. Systems people recommend putting the operating system on a relatively small fast hard drive like maybe 20GB or 40GB. Then you put the actual data on the 2.5TB second or external hard drive. When Audacity announc...

I read that three times and I can't figure out what you want to record. You get no input or recording selectors at all when you go into the Windows Control Panels? Ignoring Audacity for a minute. If Windows doesn't manage what you want, Audacity isn't going to get it. Assuming updated drivers, the s...

We haven't had this problem in a long time, but Virus Protection software can do things like this. The software insists on personally inspecting each byte of data that goes by. It doesn't affect spreadsheets or Photoshop pictures, but it can destroy anything that has to run in real time. That, too, ...

This would be a perfectly normal question if you were on a Windows XP machine and you do crazy production all day long and never checked your hard drive for damage, fragmentation, or fullness. But a Win7 machine isn't likely to have any of those problems. You have an "Old Machine" problem ...