Audacity Forum

Macs have a rough time of it because they've never been able to deal with this internally. You can use the crossed cable trick, or you can install SoundFlower. Without spending a bunch of money, those are the only ways I know of. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_audio_playing_on_the_compu...

<<<'undo' button doesn't return the sound to the original.>>> The point of my post is the desire to Export a WAV file of the work in addition to the Saved Project that will contain the later edits. Had you done that, it wouldn't matter how badly the show becomes damaged, you can always go back to th...

<<<i have successfully edited out the piece of music i require from a much larger audio file.>>> The audio file that you got from where? Audacity is famous for accepting and even editing an audio file when in fact, it has no idea at all what it's doing and may produce a damaged show. Open up your or...

And make sure it's a text editor and not a word processor. If it starts asking you for layout and font style, you may have the wrong thing. Even if you do get stuck in a word processor, many of them will allow you to save in Plain Text. Mac TextEdit has two modes; Rich Text and Plain Text. Rich Text...

<<<a regular one plugged into a sound board which is hooked into the mic jack. >>> It may be time for part numbers. What kind of microphone and what kind of sound board? Typically, you would plug the microphone directly into the Mic-In using whatever adapters are needed for your microphone. Many Lap...

I can give you the fuzzy, global idea what to look for. You may be recording more than you think you are. Check the Windows Control Panels and make sure you don't have What-U-Hear or Stereo-Mix selected. That's the setting you need to record internet audio, but it's death on live musical performance...

Surveillance software keeps a rolling one, two, or three month continuous recording and allows you to drop in at any time and enjoy the show at any speed, forward or backward, or select a time segment and export it. It also allows you to start a new rolling recording and effectively freeze the old t...

Audacity 1.2 is not fully supported on modern computers. We didn't chase you off to download and install Audacity 1.3.12 because you created a user problem. Had we discovered a computer problem, that would be the end of Audacity 1.2. You can install both Audacity versions, but only use one at a time...

Is this enough of a scare to prompt you to Export As WAV when you finish a live performance capture? The wav file becomes the backup if you completely drill your self into the mud with the project, or the computer does something nasty and you're left with thirty-five million tiny au files in a folde...

If you look in Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input, you should see two listings. Built-In Audio Input or Line-In in addition to the microphone. Plug in your keyboard with one of these if you have RCA connections... http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10...