Audacity Forum

<<<Is it not bad form? Or I could have tin ears?>>> It's bad form, but might not be terrible. Everything in compressed audio (and video) depends on everything else. If you import a top quality MP3 file (almost impossible, but work with me here) then Audacity will convert it to a top quality internal...

Audacity > About Audacity. Are you sure you're using Audacity version 1.3.12?

Koz

<<<I don't care if you have to hack windows 7 to make the program do it.>>> We do care. Audacity runs on multiple versions of all three major operating systems and there just are not that many developers to go around. Are you volunteering to hack Win7 for us? No? Then that's the end of that. Audacit...

<<<Maybe should'a opted for a Mac, but Consumer Reports called THIS the best machine on the market for the money.>>> The two platforms are just really different. They should rate the best PC and the best Mac. I think I've actually seen that done. The thing that throws Consumer Reports for a loop is ...

...or run Total Recorder on the machine you have.

Koz

<<<Any ideas!>>> Sure. You're trying to record sound playing on the computer. There's a better than even chance that Windows 7 is not going to allow you to do that, but it's worth a shot. Windows Control Panel http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues#Using_the_Control_Panel ...

The other Windows elves are in Greenwich Mean Time. They'll be along in a bit.

Koz

And just to bring this around, the quality of the two uncompressed wav files is constant -- good to excellent. The musical quality of the mono MP3 is double that of the stereo MP3. The quality goes up and down with the bitrate and reverse with the number of channels. You really have to know what you...

Sometimes Audacity "helps you out" in the background leading to oddball, unpredictable results. I loaded my stereo piano solo into Audacity and exported a 128 bitrate MP3. 100KB. Tracks > Stereo Track to mono. Export MP3. 100KB. If I export non-compressed WAV files, the two files are 1200K...

No luck so far. I found a very long thread on how to make a Demon Voice. If you're really complaining about the rhythm, meter, and emphasis of your voice, no software package is going to correct that, money or not. As we are fond of pointing out, Lauren Bacall's voice was lower than Humphrey Bogart....