Audacity Forum

I think I'd start with Go > Utilities > Disk Utilities > [Your System Disk] > Repair Permissions. Do a Verify Disk while you're in there.

Koz

It depends on how gracefully they were cut up in the first place, and whether or not they were MP3 files or other compressed format. Compression can make beginnings and endings of files not match even if they started out OK. Open the first one and Import all the others. That should give you four son...

<<<sound device' error when I try to record >>>

Try to record what? You missed the most important part of this...

koz

If whatever you're doing is a big hit, you will be doing it for months or years and custom settings get tired in a big hurry.

Koz

I know it's fashionable to beat a sound track to a bloody pulp, but normal voice presentations -- before processing -- have 10 dB to 12 dB variation between soft words and emphasized ones. And that's not counting voice performers. You would probably do well to capture the voice performance so no pea...

<<<I will be using Audacity on my laptop to conduct the interview>>> We believe you. But where is the subject of the interview? In the same room with you? Can you buy them a cup of coffee and have them drink it? Are they half-way around the world? Both of them are possible, but the tools and problem...

Did you press Stop after you finished your recording?

Koz

Yes. Stop using Audacity 1.2 1.2 doesn't get along particularly well with modern Macs.

http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac

You can put both versions on your Mac, but only use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 Projects will not open in 1.2

See if that helps.

Koz

OK. This is hard. I need to think for a bit. Please understand that I don't think this is the reason for your problem, but we chase people away from Audacity 1.2. The older Audacity can create problems on newer computers and it seems to be worse on newer (Intel) Macs. After we figure out what's happ...

<<<transferring them via Audacity onto the computer>>> How? Describe exactly how you connected the cassette player to the computer and what kind of computer it is. Laptop? Read the labels at the connections. Did you use something like this... http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&am...